deathcrash emerged from the same London art-rock scene that birthed contemporaries like Black Country, New Road and caroline, which means they’re young enough to still be figuring the world out but old enough already to have grown disillusioned with a lot of it.
“This life is the best life/ Oh god, it’s the only one,” vocalist/guitarist Tiernan Banks laments on “CMC,” a highlight of deathcrash’s new album Somersaults, as a wash of arpeggiated guitars unspool around him. The more the phrase repeats, the more its meanings seem to multiply: Are deathcrash suddenly aware of temporal finality, or are they dissatisfied by the notion that this is as good as it’s ever going to get? Is it too self-piteous to identify with both?

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