Deadset announce new single ‘Party Line’ and debut EP ‘A Place Called Home’

Hull post-punk and goth quartet Deadset return with their gripping new single ‘Party Line’. The track offers a chilling yet urgent preview of their upcoming debut EP ‘A Place Called Home’, due May 16th via rising Hull indie label Man Demolish Records (home to HOLY POPES).

Produced by Lee Drinkall (FEVER, LIFE), mixed by Pat Pretorius (Vulgarians, The Talks), and mastered by Pete Maher (U2, Jack White), ‘Party Line’ showcases Deadset at their most sonically focused and thematically powerful yet. Wrapped in shimmering reverb and drenched in slap-back vocals, it’s a dark and moody slice of post-punk that channels the genre’s classic roots while pushing toward something new.

Frontman Sam Mellors explains the track’s unsettling inspiration: “I was seeing a lot of stories in the news about girls going out and never making it home and it just got me thinking, ‘man, wtf is going on?!’ So this song ended up coming from that. It’s essentially a murder ballad I guess, but it’s also me kinda asking why these things keep happening?”