dEUS return with “Vantage Point”, their boldest album to date, featuring guest vocal appearances from Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife and Guy Garvey of Elbow.

“Vantage Point” finds dEUS at their most adventurous and self-assured. The brooding grandeur of opener ‘When She Comes Down’ precedes a confident left-turn, the anxious squall of ‘Oh Your God’, Tom spitting wisdoms over tremolo guitar drone. “Eternal Woman” follows, highlighting the more emotive side of dEUS, before the propulsive rhythms and menacing guitars of “Favourite Game”. Icy synths combine with dark, smouldering bass on the noirish “Slow”, featuring a stellar guest vocal appearance from Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife, while The Architect finds dEUS in early 80s NY punk-funk territory.

The album draws to a close on an emotional note, the beautiful piano refrain on “Smokers Reflect” framing it’s lyric of love’s regret. This is followed by the epic sweep of ‘The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider’, a lilting meditation upon the transitory nature of beauty which features the aching harmonies of Elbow’s Guy Garvey on guest vocals. ‘Popular Culture’ closes the album out with raggedy choirs singing philosophical choruses over strings and a veritable Phil Spector Wall Of Sound. A suitably grand exeunt for an album that plays large. A record that will provide a soundtrack to both nocturnal adventures as much as the wide open skies of festival season.

2008 Dates:

04-08 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Doornroosje
04-09 Saarbrücken, Germany - Roxy
04-10 Mannheim, Germany - Alte Reuerwache
04-14 Cologne, Germany - Kulturkirche
04-15 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
04-16 London, England - Scala
04-24 Paris, France - Trabendo
04-29 Hasselt, Belgium - Muziekodroom
04-30 Liège, Belgium - Droixhe
05-01 Leuven, Belgium - Het Depot
05-02 Charleroi, Belgium - Eden
05-03 Bruges, Belgium - Cactus Club @ MaZ
05-05 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
05-07 Munich, Germany - Elsenhalle
05-08 Milan, Italy - Magazinni Generali
05-09 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik
05-10 Linz, Austria - Linzfestival
05-11 Vienna, Austria - Flex