deathcrash - Somersaults

Released 27th February 2026

deathcrashs third album, Somersaults, glimmers with an everyday euphoria. The London-based slowcore/post-rock quartet has always had an affinity for building worlds only to crush them. From their breakout EP, People thought my windows were stars (2021), through two critically acclaimed studio albums, Return (2022) and Less (2023), they have been both the architects and the destroyers, the creationists and the ones manning the flood barrier. But, recorded between Black Box Studio in the Loire Valley and Haggerstons Holy Mountain, Somersaults is almost joyful.

Its ten tracks are more vocal heavy than any of the bands catalogue think Mark Linkous via The Kinks but lyrically, Somersaults resists revelation. For all its abrasion, phrases appear half-swallowed, broken off at the edge of meaning, consumed by the smaller textures of living. Thirty, no career, it fucking worries me / And doing the ba