deary – Seabird
London trio deary has spent years chasing the perfect balance between weight and light, and their debut album “Birding” finally nails it. Due out 3 April on Bella Union, the record’s lead single “Seabird” shows exactly what they’ve been working toward—Dottie Cockram’s vocals drift over layers of guitar that keep building toward the sky, while Harry Catchpole’s drums anchor everything with trip-hop rhythms that nod to Portishead.
The song works as a kind of fable. Someone’s pleading with an all-powerful bird, asking when things get better. It captures that feeling of being small in a huge world, which ties directly into the album’s broader themes about human impact on nature, on each other, on our own mental health.
The band self-produced “Birding” with their collaborator Iggy B, a first for them since their 2023 debut EP “Fairground”. Ben had been working as a freelance mixing engineer and brought those skills back to deary. As Dottie puts it, their earlier EPs were them trying to figure out what deary should sound like—this album is them actually being it.
Tracklist:
- Smile
- Seabird
- Baby’s Breath
- Gypsophila
- Blue Ribbon
- Garden Of Eden
- Alma
- No Sweeter Feeling
- Terra Fable
- Alfie
- Birding
Tour Dates:
Europe
- 20 May – Le Hasard Ludique, Paris, France
- 21 May – V11, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 22 May – Cinetol, Amsterdam, Netherlands
North America:
- 12 May – Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, UK
- 13 May – YES (The Pink Room), Manchester, UK
- 14 May – The Speakeasy at Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, UK
- 15 May – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield, UK
