Deep Sea Diver has long been on the rise in the local music scene and has recently started making waves nationally too.
The band is coming off a tour opening for Pearl Jam and during that tour the group played several unreleased songs from their upcoming record. It looks like the band is getting ready to release some of that new material, the first of which is the track “Billboard Heart.” The single was released earlier today on Bandcamp and a video dropped this morning.
Eagle-eyed observers will notice that the Bandcamp page for the song has a copyright Sub Pop 2024 note in the fine print, which likely means the band has joined the Sub Pop roster. A release date and title for the new album has yet to be revealed.
Here’s a statement about the new song from the band’s Bandcamp page:
The rapturous “Billboard Heart” is a stunning introduction to Deep Sea Diver’s universe. The song puts Dobson and her band in the company of St. Vincent, TV on the Radio, and Flock of Dimes, bands that have found ornate and magnetic ways to make indie rock by discarding notions of how it must sound or what it must say. Dobson punches through her past here with this new song and forthcoming album. As she howls during “Billboard Heart” she is “welcoming the future by letting go of it.”
Dobson offers this on the song, “‘Billboard Heart” is a song that felt like a strange transmission, a new emotion, and a spirit-filled dream when it came. It is my nod to the simplicity of my favorite Tom Petty songs and to my love for Wim Wenders’ film Paris, Texas. The feeling of standing in the lonesome desert, embracing every particle of yourself, even the ones that are hard to look at, and fighting for your spirit to move through this world without entanglement. It is about being present and embracing the future while wholeheartedly letting go of any amount of control that I think I have in this life. ‘Billboard Heart’ is both a longing for something that may not exist and a place where I can be free.”
Listen to “Billboard Heart” below.
