"It’s the ebb & flow, the highs and lows that make up what we have...."

People do funny things in relationships; sometimes they do clever things, surprising things, hurtful things or foolish things. Most of these have been written about in songs; Amusia is a collection of twelve more that carefully tread round secret thoughts, broken histories and brave futures.

Deekie is a band and also the obsession of two introverted London dwellers (Mr L and Neets) that have spent the last three years slowly getting better at what they do and making lots of discoveries and mistakes along the way. When they met neither of them had played guitar before, one of them hadn’t even written a song, but they learnt quickly. Amusia is the auditory diary of those times.

The album was made at their studio in Mr L’s front room, a dusty collection of wires and boxes that if stroked in the right way make interesting reverberations. If you listen closely you can also hear the cars and buses that roll outside the window, sometimes adding a warm throb or a blast of horn, as both of them sing the songs they scribbled late into the night.

Amusia is a mishmash of styles and textures, from the stark folk of Unruly Truce to the finger-clicking jazz pop of Tribeca via the shoegazing synths of Close as Air and the found-sound instrumentalism of Oh! Absolutely. The songs may flit and fly but the sincerity and intimacy remains throughout.

Album highlight Carpet was made with help from their mysterious friend and collaborator The Third Man, who pops up throughout Amusia sprinkling extra beats and off-kilter oddness wherever he goes. The track has a lolloping percussive push and a thrumming melancholic undertow. Download it free, right now!

Another friend, the grumpy one from fellow Kennington Recordings act TrebleCat, contributes to the album closer Ebb & Flow, the result of a (very) late night recording session.

Amusia is a nocturnal album; sometimes very dark and close, sometimes dreamlike and distant. After dark is when people have the most fun and tell each other the truths they wouldn’t during daylight. Amusia is like that... a collection of late nights that make up what they have.