The riveting post-punk outfit have delivered their best tune yet

Odes is the brilliantly-brash new offering by the Manchester-based five-strong band DEAFDEAFDEAF, and undoubtedly gives a glimmer of what we should expect from them this year.

Coming hot off the heels from their prior releases, Nothingness and Bodies, their follow-up promises — and succeeds — to bring a mixture of the band’s old ideas and cement them with the new to take an aim at the hitmaker-bullseye (that’s a real thing, promise).

The stratospheric sound of Odes brings visions of dreary-looking Northern city side streets on a rainy day (an image that is almost a home comfort to myself) and captures the atmosphere with ease.

The lyrics are equally as fitting; exploring the bleakness of life and the mundane every day in just a little over four minutes. It’s ever-so reminiscent of the late 70s to early 80s post-punk days of Manchester in particular, with a fantastic riff thrown in at the end — it’s clear to see that guitarists Jack Findlay and Harry George have been putting some shifts in. Somehow they managed to take an already raucous track to the next level with their impressive guitar work and it’s something they deserve all the recognition for.

DEAFDEAFDEAF’s lead vocalist Nathan Hill has described Odes as being “an accumulation of all the ideas and sounds we've worked on previously brought into what we think is our best song yet”. He’s not wrong, and I’ll say it again; this is their best track yet; Nathan knows it, I know it — because it’s the truth.

Already gaining attention from radio stations such as BBC Radio 6 and Amazing Radio, not to mention being added to Spotify’s The Punk List, they’re set to take 2021 by storm. Go on, give it a listen. Add it to your playlists, you know you want to. You’ll want to be in the know with this one.