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Neurot Recordings announces the May release of CICATRIZES DO FUTURO, the new LP by Brazilian duo DEAFKIDS, unveiling a new single/video, preorders, tour dates, and more.
Formed in 2010 in Volta Redonda/Rio de Janeiro and signed with US-based label Neurot Recordings since 2017, DEAFKIDS is the work of multi-instrumentalists Douglas Leal (vocals, guitar, electronics, samplers, percussive, artwork) and Marian Sarine (drums, percussive, electronics, bass), who consistently blend the raw spirit of noise and punk with complex global rhythms and electronic experimentation, creating a vibrant and provocative body of work that challenges musical and aesthetic conventions.
DEAFKIDS returns with a vital and combustive new album, CICATRIZES DO FUTURO (SCARS OF THE FUTURE), the band’s first non-collaborative full-length since 2019’s Metaprogramação. This nine-track sonic assault forges a path beyond the conventions and boundaries of static musical genres. Here, electronic fury and feverish organic percussion collide with a relentless Latin American punk spirit.
Imbued with a frantic Afro-Latin pulse, lead single “CICATRIZES” (SCARS) is available to listen to today and features a dirty, danceable, and sweat-soaked intersection between raw punk and clave-led Afro-Cuban music, with a futuristic approach and bloodshot eyes. Heavy pulsating 808 bass drums hit hard as a characteristic D-beat foundation for Sarine’s ultrafast percussion played in the Guaguancó rhythm, driving a relentless acid-house bassline and fuzzed walls of guitar riffs while processed vocals screams in absolute madness.
“The lyrics of ‘CICATRIZES’ are like an eyewitness account of a world collapsing, facing its devastating material and psychological consequences,” the band states. “Describing the journey from apathy to traumatic perception, from alienation to incurable witnessing, the song captures the state of a consciousness that, awakening from the collective delusion, confronts the terrifying reality that has been concealed. The rhetorical question ‘Is it all a delirium?’ is quickly answered and amplified: it is not individual, but a collective ‘great delirium!,’ a toxic and dominant narrative that normalizes the absurd and paralyzes action.”
“Conceptually, the album is a visceral diagnosis of a world intoxicated by its own fictions of power, tracing the anatomy of a systemic grand deception and exploring its mechanics of psychological, social, and material domination, the indelible marks imprinted on bodies and minds and its catastrophic consequences. It is a journey from the poisoned and addicted collective psyche to the desperate search for an antidote, while the future seems to be already cursed by the very forces that pretend to build it. Yet, for all its thematic weight, CICATRIZES DO FUTURO is hypnotically danceable – physical and ritualistic music that demands body movement as a form of mental cleansing. The album doesn’t just reflect a fractured and violent world – it breathes desire to live and resist through new sonic paths.”
They continue, “Our music comes from the perception of the environmental, political, and moral toxicity that permeates our realities under such conditions. In the context of the album, the scars are those of a brutally stolen past reflected in a wicked future. A permanent mark of violence is also a memory that will never be silenced!”
Watch the music video for DEAFKIDS’ “CICATRIZES” now at THIS LOCATION and stream the song HERE.
CICATRIZES DO FUTURO will be released on LP, CD, and digital formats on May 29th. Find preorders and presaves through Neurot Recordings RIGHT HERE.
CICATRIZES DO FUTURO Track Listing:
1. PARASITA (PARASITE)
2. CICATRIZES (SCARS)
3. PROFECIA (PROPHECY)
4. SIMULACRO (SIMULACRUM)
5. ADVERTÊNCIA (WARNING)
6. REFLEXO (REFLEX)
7. FEITIÇO (SPELL)
8. POSSESSÃO COLETIVA (COLLECTIVE POSSESSION)
9. EM TRANSE (IN TRANCE)
Additional previews of the album will drop over the weeks ahead.
The No Hope Tour 7, which sees DEAFKIDS and Test performing as one band, is already underway across Brazil. Having launched on March 6th, the tour continues through the 22nd with Test. See the remaining dates and find tickets HERE, and expect additional dates to be announced over the months ahead.
Review copies of CICATRIZES DO FUTURO will be issued in the coming days. For interviews and all coverage of DEAFKIDS in The Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com, and in the EU/UK contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
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