The feeling of clinging to something for the wrong reasons drives the latest from DBA!. The Liverpool alt-rock specialists have shared new single “Falling Out,” out now, alongside the announcement of their second EP ‘I was born, I was dead,’ which is also out now.
Frontman Sam Warren laid out the song’s emotional core. “It’s a track touching on the feelings of restriction and claustrophobia in situations that you find yourself clinging on to for the wrong reasons,” he explained, “and then the subsequent sentiments of relief and renewal that come with the decision to let go.”
DBA! have a genuinely distinctive origin story. The band was birthed in a DIY demo studio tucked into the literal basement drain of a Liverpool nightclub, and over the last 18 months they’ve become major figures in the city’s indie landscape. Heavily influenced by Eels, Pavement, The Breeders, Elastica, and Beck, they earned widespread recognition with debut EP ‘skip! Worried,’ picking up plaudits from BBC 6 Music figures including Iggy Pop, Huw Stephens, Craig Charles, Abbie McCarthy, and Emily Pilbeam.
“Falling Out” follows EP lead single “a poet and a clown” and showcases the band’s trademark sensibilities, with support from Dork, DIY, So Young, Rolling Stone UK, The Line Of Best Fit, CMU, and Rough Trade. The press has captured the appeal well, with Dork calling them chaotic, cathartic, and defiant, and DIY pointing to their raucous riffs and vocoder-splashed vocals.
On the live front, the band recently made their debut stateside trip for New Colossus Festival in New York City, with a summer of festival appearances now taking shape.