Adele Dazeem

London-based band Adele Dazeem share new video for ‘Deep Sea Hand’ taken from their debut EP Metanoia.

Wickedly talented East London trio Adele Dazeem have shared a new video for ‘Deep Sea Hand’, one of the standout tracks from their debut EP, Metanoia, which will be released on November 21.

It begins as a heavy, post-punk rumble before opening out and speeding up for a stunning two minutes of pure shoegaze release.

“It digs into the pain of realising we’ve helped shape the very world that confines us, It speaks to the disconnection from feeling and the refusal of vulnerability.

Yet by the end, a shift begins: a tentative suggestion that the beliefs that bind us might not be absolute, and are beginning to fade.”

says singer/guitarist Charlie Hearl.

The track is already a highlight of the trio’s intense and immersive live sets. Following recent shows with No Joy, Scoreboard and LSD And The Search For God they support their Sonic Cathedral labelmates Whitelands at Corsica Studios in London on November 20.

Adele Dazeem was formed in 2020 by Charlie, bassist Philippe O’Connor and drummer Frank Andrews and they have developed a sound that fuses a cutting urgency with ethereal ambience. Their name is from an infamous John Travolta mispronunciation – seemingly in contrast to the weight of their music – but the simple idea of a misread name became the starting point for their exploration of identity, ego, attachment and the different parts of ourselves.

This explains why – alongside Sigur Rós, Weyes Blood, Ulrika Spacek, Duster, Deafheaven and Beach House – they list psychologists, writers and thinkers among their influences, including Erich Fromm, RD Laing, Donald Winnicott, Ernest Becker, Susan Sontag, Melanie Klein, Hannah Arendt and Victor Frankl.

As their first body of work, Metanoia – produced by mixed by Rory Atwell – traces an inner journey from darkness and emotional dissonance to confrontation and eventual transformation across its four stunning tracks. With origins in Ancient Greek philosophy and Christian mysticism, the title roughly means ‘a change of mind’, or the moment when psychological collapse becomes clarity.

Opening with the frenetic former single ‘Misère’ – named after a play in cards where you self-sabotage and attempt to lose every trick – it moves into the epic ‘Deep Sea Hand’. The intense ‘Mezanin’ explores the discomfort of awakening without action, the moment when awareness begins to surface, leading into the title track.

“That is a fragile song, made up of many phases of anger, patience, love and acceptance towards ourselves and others,” 

explains Charlie.

“The EP closes in a kind of exasperated clarity. A final call to recognise how easily our past haunts the present, and how urgently we must meet it, if we want to truly change our mind.”

Metanoia is released on November 21 and is available to pre-order now

on a limited-edition transparent black and blue 12” and digital.