DEZ DARE

track-list:
Got a Fire In My Socket
Matter Vs Matter [explicit]
10,000 Monkeys + An Argument With Time
No One Wants To Hear It
Gotta Cold Feeling
Entangled Entropy
Call My City, Don’t Call My Telephone
Josephine Says Explode
Schrödinger’s Apocalypse
The Elasticity Of Knowing
A Billion Voices Screaming, Hello Void!

live dates 2024:
Friday, 12 April 2024: The Tin Music and Arts, Coventry w/ Hula Girls + guests [Sink or Swim Promotions]
Saturday, 13 April 2024: The Dark Horse, Birmingham w/ Exotic Pets + guests [Die Das Der]
Wednesday, 17 April 2024: The Prince Albert, Brighton w/ guests [The Séance]
Friday, 19 April 2024: Fish Factory Art Space, Falmouth w/ Ubiquitous Meh! + Broken Arrow
Saturday, 20 April 2024: Underground, Plymouth w/ Ubiquitous Meh! + Broken Arrow [Damnsonic]
Thursday, 25 April 2024: The Deco, Portsmouth w/ guests [Neu Waves]

The Wire [Edwin Pouncey]:
“DIY psych punk Dez Dare pits sledgehammer riffs and lo-fi electronics against a world of monsters… dynamically armed with a ten-pronged set of lyrical barbs and musical hooks that, once heard, sink deep and hold fast.”
Bandcamp:
“Riff-heavy, blown-out garage-punk from the UK’s Dez Dare with lyrics aimed at the political forces of division and isolation”
The Big Takeover:
“Grimy, experimental art-punk blending distorted slabs of guitar, noisy psych-infected electronics, and racing beats… busy like Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.”
MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL:
“Recommended for fans of KING GIZZARD, fuzz pedals, and maybe those rad conversion vans with wizards painted on the side.”
Weirdo Shrine:
“Early 90s-inspired take on DEVO punk… high energy sucker punches on your ear.”
OX Fanzine [8/10]:
“Sludgey-grungey-fuzzed psychedelic-noiserock… I like the fact that despite all the edgy complexity, catchy songs emerge again and again.”

Dez Dare launches 2024 with the 1st single, ‘Got a Fire In My Socket’, from his forthcoming album, ‘A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.’.
This track is a fuzzed up, bass and synth driven, stomper that tackles the biggest question of all…
“Whatever your taste, the small things matter. Make it a strong choice!”
The album features 11 songs that delve further into the void than previous records, leaving the sardonic frustration behind for sarcastic existentialism, zeroing in on the big philosophical questions and the pedantic shards of nonsense that make up our existence.
‘Got a Fire In My Socket’:
“As the wires fray from the burden of existence + the last sparks shimmer in your consciousness, the void has one simple question… ‘What tunes do you want playing on the way out?’.”
‘Matter Vs Matter’:
“It is a basic equation we all need to see value in… do the things we collect around us matter? Or does matter really not matter.”
‘10,000 Monkeys + An Argument With Time’:
“Time is kicking us all while we scramble around this rocky mass. If time passes slower closer to the mass, get HI to get perspective!”
‘No One Wants To Hear It’:
“People pretend they are adapting. Recycling their single use plastic, eating organic biodynamic berries from the Pyrenees, meditating to save the Amazonian river dolphin… but change is existential + fundamental, not convenient + Instagrammable.”
‘Gotta Cold Feeling’:
“That time when someone talked about something so boring, so long, it felt like time had fractured.”
‘Entangled Entropy’:
“The Autistic. The balance between output + input is complicated. When unbalanced, there is a cost that is uncontrollable.”
‘Call My City, Don’t Call My Telephone’:
“I don’t have time to stand in lines, nor for the shenanigans within it. Phone calls on speaker. Screaming kids. Shirtless bros. Existence is short. The beast is looming.”
‘Josephine Says Explode’:
“It’s OK to let shit out. Vent. Scream. Write weird songs. If you don’t, you could blow.”
‘Schrödinger’s Apocalypse’:
“This experiment is purely theoretical! Shit will go down if we don’t open the box.”
‘The Elasticity Of Knowing’:
“There is a theory in Neuroscience that the brain builds our reality from past experience + our eyes only inform us when there is a difference between the two. Physics asks the question, if things only exist once they have been observed, do they truly exist. If someone doesn’t experience different types of people + places, relying on their shared experience for reality, how will they ever see a different perspective?”
‘A Billion Voices Screaming, Hello Void!’:
“When the time comes, embrace the moment + be polite. Say hi to the void, it’s just doing its job.”
Dez Dare ventures further into the void than ever before on his 4th album and the 1st to be released via God Unknown Records.
On past records Dare has fought beasts and beats alike, waging a fuzz war and tackling the biggest topics the world has to face;
Doom scrolling, capitalist demagogues, a passionate dislike of the beach in summer.
On this record he leaves the sardonic frustration behind for sarcastic existentialism, zeroing in on the big philosophical questions, and the pedantic shards of nonsense that make up our existence.
Piling up the synths, noise boxes and guitar pedals, Dez set about building a soundscape of noise and ideas around the nature of reality, time and how we interact with them.
From the music you would play in your last moments, to the reverse Darwinism of modern society, to arguing with time itself and very boring people talking at you, all is covered here for the aspiring existentialist.
The self-produced British/Australian has spent over 3 decades producing music, releasing and touring bands, and doing live sound for z-grade metal bands.
Growing up in the coastal town of Geelong (Djilang) in Australia, he was introduced to the DIY punk and rock scene at 15 and this community and the ideas rooted in the underground music scene have guided his output and ethics throughout his career.
This year Dez will be joining forces with label titans God Unknown (Cassels/Duke Garwood/James Johnston + Steve Gullick/KLÄMP/Oneida/Laura Loriga/Monster Magnet/Wellwater Conspiracy [Soundgarden + Monster Magnet]) and will be producing a deluxe version of the release that will include a 12 page comic illustrated by long time collaborator Mike Keane.
Across the drone of noise and washed out guitars of the final track, ‘A Billion Voices Screaming, Hello Void!’, the chant repeats “We all return to where we begun…” which encapsulates the message that Dare delivers.
“We are all made from the same stardust and we all return to the universe that spat us out, we just need to enjoy the many shards of nonsense on that swift descent into the void.”