Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Deradoorian (Decisive Pink, Dirty Projectors) has signed to Fire Records. This event will be accompanied by a standalone digital single, ‘Digital Gravestone’ out 3rd December. The single heralds a new album from Deradoorian, slated for release in the spring of 2025.
“Deradoorian’s voice is the main attraction. Wispy one moment, bellowing full-throated the next, and capable of dazzling melismatic runs, it remains her not-so-secret weapon.” Pitchfork
Deradoorian is known for making inventive and intelligent pop music, and ‘Digital Gravestone’ is no exception. Like the skilled tailor who makes dazzling creations from snippets on the cutting room floor, Deradoorian has a rare knack of re-equipping sounds from pop music’s past to find a suitable home in the modern world. The rumbling, dubby bassline that underpins and constructs the song is reminiscent of Dead Kennedys and encourages a sleazy-sounding sax, crystalline key stabs and jagged guitar lines to streak across the cavernous spaces carved out for them.
The new single can be read in other ways. Angel Deradoorian posits that the song is “a conglomeration of broken imagery of a deserted world. Ideas surrounding genocide and the regeneration of the survivors. A survivor of [the Armenian] genocide, I am the daughter of the only son of the only surviving grandfather. The song touches on the power of belief. Looking toward someone or something higher than ourselves to keep hope alive amongst decay.”
Maybe someday, in the manner of ‘Digital Gravestone’, we can all tailor something worthwhile from a troubled past and an awful present, for a better future.
