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Challenger Deep

by DIVVAS

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White Room 04:00
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Challenger Deep 04:53
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Brave Boy Blues 04:14
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Koac 03:34
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Lied Für's Volk 03:02
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Slow Motion 03:42
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Come 04:44
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London’s Slow Dance Recordings is delighted to be collaborating with Zurich-based Blau Blau Records to split-release DIVVAS’ second single from forthcoming debut EP, Challenger Deep.

DIVVAS describe their music as ‘Tarkovsky holding hands with the queen’. That image - mythic, jarring, vaguely comical - is a fine descriptor for the conflicted emotional states they put across in their debut EP Challenger Deep. Their lyrics converse with the void, engaged with heartbreak and emptiness, yet are underpinned with a simmering fury which asserts itself when nothing else will. Their music speaks to wastelands, the horror of the emptiness, and the flickering ember of hope underpinning it all.

Made up of Corrine Nora and Dave Eleanor, the duo met at rehearsals for a show in April 2019. Upon realising they shared sonic touchstones, the duo worked at a furious pace, and by September had completed their debut EP. As such, their music is inherently dual, a meeting of two different musical backgrounds, Corrine’s jazz roots meeting with Dave’s classical education. Working deep into the night, DIVVAS worked on the EP continuously over a week, irritating flatmates and creating their own world in the process.

Challenger Deep is named after the deepest point in the Earth’s hydrosphere, nearly 11 kilometres. Appropriately, the EP finds the band going deeper than most artists would consider comfortable, with songs about materialism, anhedonia, and institutional abuses of power. Whilst undeniably bleak, Challenger Deep is afforded levity through its spacious arrangements and the palpable sound of two artists discovering their own niche in real time. The duo used unconventional recording techniques to achieve this feel, with Corrine recording some of her vocals having just awoken to capture the vulnerability of that state.

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released June 26, 2020

"Corinne Huber - everything
David Jegerlehner - everything
Nicolas Stocker - Drums"

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