The Deepsea Goes is a noise rock band that formed in early 2007 in Los Angeles, CA. Early releases drew mainly on post-punk and hardcore punk influences, but the band has evolved to incorporate diverse influences including krautrock, doom metal, shoegaze, post rock & math rock. The band has shared the stage with a variety of acts including Japanther, The Devil Makes Three, Blue Jungle, Tweak Bird, Prima Donna & Mr. Gnome. Members have played with an array of bands including Hellogoodbye, Eskimo, The Last Man of the 9th Michigan Infantry, This Evening & Let Go of the Rail.
In early 2007, The Deepsea Goes entered their San Pedro rehearsal studio & almost immediately began writing & recording what would become Extraordinary Renditions (2007). Upon it’s initial release in June of 2007, Extraordinary Renditions (2007) was distributed throughout the greater Los Angeles area in anonymous manila envelopes with cryptic messages & the address for Transnational Debate Records written on them. They were placed in clothing at thrift stores, bathrooms of prominent venues, magazines at supermarkets & used bins at record stores. The methods employed echoed the album title’s reference to the United States’ use of “extraordinary renditions” to secretly transfer & distribute prisoners from state to state.
Concurrently, the band started writing what would become Épater Le Bourgeois (2007). Drawing on the influence of the Situationist International writings that inspired it’s title, Épater Le Bourgeois (2007) solidified the bands early sound & lyrical subject matter. Songs referenced transexuals, ennui, murder, drug addiction, ghosts, the failings of technology & other ideas which would be expanded upon in FORCALI(2008).
With a title based on a sarcastic promise to dedicate the album to a friend, FORCALI (2008) would prove to be darker & more muscular than previous releases. Informed by the band’s chaotic, non-stop live shows, the album was sequenced to work as a single piece revolving around what is seen to be the various failings of mankind. Lyrics focued almost entirely on murder, rape, swinging, abortion, kidnapping, castration, & dissatisfaction with the modern age.
While recording & mixing FORCALI (2008), The Deepsea Goes started writing what would become Reductio Ad Absurdum (2008). This release would see the band moving away from their initial influences & working with more complex arrangements. The lyrics revolve around a man living in the end times that is saved by a chance meeting with a woman who implores him to escape the city before it collapses. The Deepsea Goes embarked on a tour of the United States in the fall of 2008 behind the release.
Returning from their first tour of the United States, The Deepsea Goes began recording demos for their next album. While on tour in the spring of 2008, the band broke down on the way to a show in Idaho & was stranded in Grangeville, ID. During this time, they chanced upon a movie called "Passion Of Mind". The movie’s plot focuses on a character who is living two parallel realities that is forced to decide which of the two lives is real & which is simply a dream. This would become the foundation for the lyrical subject manner for their next release.
Roughly translating to “dream time”, ORAONEIROI (2009) saw The Deepsea Goes incorporating elements of progressive rock, doom metal, shoegaze, math rock, & krautrock. The album is based on the story of a man who has to decide whether the reality he lives as a man struggling in a crumbling post apocalyptic world or the seemingly serene life he leads with the woman he loves is his true reality. Two of the songs from ORAONEIROI (2009) were remixed by Triobelisk for a digital single. The band then set off on a tour of the United States promoting the album, in the fall of 2009.
The Deepsea Goes is currently recording Les Eaux Profondes (2009) & planning a tour of the United States in the spring of 2010.
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