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90
Blue Skies elevates Dehd's mysterious auras, thoughtful experimentation, and strong songwriting, but reaches its highest levels of beauty and intensity when the band shares more of their unobscured personalities.
80
Whereas Flower of Devotion captured the precariousness and uncertainty of the last two years, on Blue Skies, Kempf, Balla, and McGrady have found solid ground beneath their feet. Now they revel in all that has remained and everything they have to look forward to, even if they have to build it themselves.
1mo
80
With Blue Skies, the production is crisper, the melodies are sharper, the moods hit deeper and Dehd seem ready to conquer the indie rock world — from Glasgow to Chicago, and everywhere in between.
1mo
80
Each song is catchy and evocative on its own, and taken together they feel casually masterly.
80
The album packs a lot of ideas—and songs—into its brief 33-minute runtime, preventing almost any song from overstaying its welcome.
79
The Chicago trio are loose but grounded on their Flower of Devotion follow-up.
1mo
77
Blue Skies lives up to its title in the best ways possible, with repeated detours from the norm.
77
The Chicago three-piece hasn’t changed a thing about its streamlined indie rock, evoking youthful abandon and the ache of distantly-recalled bliss.
60
Blue Skies offers more than enough mouth-watering musicality to satisfy the taste buds. But across songs like ‘Clear’, ‘Dream On’ and ‘Empty In My Mind’, Dehd sound mostly free from their baggage and internal divergences to distinct and nostalgic echoes of dreampop and saccharine shoegaze.
1mo
Dehd are a band that I just have a soft spot for. Their music is fun and always trying to write a hook that will forever be stuck in your head.
Admittedly, this album is hit and miss, but it’s CLEAAAAAAAAAAAAR, that some of these songs can conjure up an addiction that really screws up your day. Like you may be mid typing some document and just find yourself typing “ruh-ruh-ruhdemption”, because you’re singing it in your head to such an extent. Bad Love will likely go ... read more
Nada inovador, nada surpreendente, mas ainda assim um registro musical impornente. Com bastante potência, tamanha está que consegue suprir o querer de ouvintes mais exigentes e requintes pela sua falta de personalidade e unanimidade.
Blue Skies is about as minimal as rock can get. Dehd, the Chicago-based trio who've found success in perfecting the youthful abandon of plain jane guitars-and-drums indie rock, have been balancing the ecstatic simplicities of energetic, sing-your-heart-out pop with the fact that you can only take such pared-down instrumentation so far. Their solution to this? To not change a thing. While Blue Skies is a bit more low-key compared to its richly-textured and heartier predecessor Flower of ... read more
Nada inovador, nada surpreendente, mas ainda assim um registro musical impornente. Com bastante potência, tamanha está que consegue suprir o querer de ouvintes mais exigentes e requintes pela sua falta de personalidade e unanimidade.
I need to start off by saying that the vocal work on this album is immense. Dehd know how to stack vocal harmonies and produce a really lovely vocal production, but the rest of the album doesn't have the same feel. The backing tracks are incredibly samey and don't really lead anywhere. It's one of those albums that you can tell when a single is on because it sounds so much better. There's a flow to the single tracks while the rest feels very filler.
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Added on: February 14, 2022