by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Chicago post-hardcore stalwarts Great Deceivers return once more with a new self-titled album, due out April 30th via Landland Colportage (Joan of Arc, Chris Brokaw, Slow Mass). While the members stay busy between bands like C.H.E.W., Options, and various solo projects, they’ve remained committed to their work in Great Deceivers for over a decade, having most recently released the great In Spirit LP back in 2019. The band’s self-titled effort is said to be their swan song, one last stellar gesture, as the members have spread across the country since the album’s recording. Luckily for everyone, it’s their best record yet, as the quartet mix a serene pop sense into the tightly wound rhythms and shifting guitar lines. It has a worn in feel, the type that comes from ten years spend playing together.
Having shared lead single “This Is The Place” upon the record’s announcement, we’re excited to premiere “Orbit,” a dreamy and spacious new song that traverses a great distance in its compact near four minute run. Languid and atmospheric at it’s start, the twin guitars of Max Green and Russell Harrison become increasingly intertwined, the melody becoming knotted as the rhythm lurches into a stunning dirge toward the hook. The band weave and dig their way through dynamics, pulling tension from beauty and allowing notes to resonate and resolve in cohesion with the subtly complex structures.