Deeper Sign To Sub Pop, Share New Single ‘Sub’

An all-new project is incoming...

Chicago group Deeper have signed to Sub Pop.

The band have caused word of mouth buzz in North America, with their pointed songwriting having an intricate, yet wide-open feel. There is certainly a post-punk aspect to their work – you can hear shades of Mission Of Burma in there – but it more accurately recalls that stubborn, left-field streak Chicago artists so readily call their own.

A 15-date North American tour is in the works, while a full project is incoming. Freshly signed to Sub Pop, Deeper have decided to toast the news with all-new single ‘Sub’.

Emblematic of Deeper’s fastidious creativity, the song went through several permutations before finally arriving at its end point. Blunt-edged indie rock, the band comment…

 “‘Sub’ was in the trash can for a minute. We recorded it in 2021 at a slower tempo before realizing it didn’t work. It was built again from the ground up, this time with a much faster tempo and different dynamics. The nice thing about iterating on songs over the pandemic was having time to revisit old ideas – the song even features a guitar part from the first recorded Deeper song that we ended up discarding.”

“Lyrics jump around events from the last few years, often reflecting on the past and present. The video functions as a vessel for us to reference characters from past videos, showing them stuck in a loop, in a purgatory where they’re waiting to move on to whatever is coming next.”

Tune in now.

Photo Credit: Drake Sweeney

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