More than ten years after the last long player so far, the new album HOW TO REPLACE IT by dEUS will be released on February 17th. The Belgians have already shared the first single “Must Have Been New”.
Founding member and multi-instrumentalist Klaas Janzoons explains the piece: “I played the piano and asked our drummer Steph to play a waltz rhythm. I immediately thought of the chords for the verse and chorus, Tom added a ‘middle eight’ part and we had the core of the song.”
“Short, explosive jams” instead of lengthy, structured sessions
The approach for the new record was different: there were no longer five-day, structured jam sessions. The twelve tracks on HOW TO REPLACE IT were created in “short, explosive jams,” according to the press release.
Our review of the pre-predecessor KEEP YOU CLOSE (2011) is available here.
The track listing on “HOW TO REPLACE IT”
- “How To Replace It”
- “Must Have Been New”
- “Man Of The House”
- “1989”
- “Faux Bamboo”
- “Dream Is A Giver”
- “pirates”
- “Simple Pleasures”
- “Never Get You High”
- “cadillac”
- “Love Breaks Down”
- “Le Blues Polaire”
The tour dates for Germany and Austria 2023
Advance ticket sales begin on Wednesday (9 November, 10:00 a.m.). Here are the dates for shows in Germany and Austria:
- March 20: Huxley’s New World, Berlin
- March 21: Backstage Werk, Munich
- March 22: Arena, Vienna
- March 26: Stollwerck community center, Cologne
HOW TO REPLACE IT is the first work by dEUS since 2012. You can listen to the predecessor FOLLOWING SEA here:
Their seven studio albums to date have all reached gold or platinum status in Belgium. Their four most recent records made it to number 1 in the Belgian charts, their two predecessors to number 2.