Sonic Youth, Jon Foxx and the 1979 school of arty, synth flavoured, post-punk – All hail the return of DEALING WITH DAMAGE

LONDON’s DEALING WITH DAMAGE unleash third album ‘The London Particular’ today via Serial Bowl Records, written in Kentish Town and recorded at Perry Vale Studio with Pat Collier [RIP] and Jess Cochran, and One Cat Studio with Jon Clayton.

“In the autumn of 2023, we’d been without a bass player for a few months and were fast running out of promising leads,” said frontman Ed Wenn. “There were no gigs, rehearsals or recordings so I filled in the gap by writing a ton of new songs and putting together demos, ready to work on when a new bass player was found.

“Working on those demos, the aim was to come up with material that didn’t sound like DWD and wouldn’t result in just another version of the last album. The new songs were sketched out with a bass part, onto which were layered Sonic Youth-inspired guitar in tunings that we’d not used before, followed by vocals influenced by Jon Foxx and the 1979 school of arty, synth flavoured, post-punk.

“In November 2024 bassist Owen Cox was recruited into the DWD ranks. He was the perfect fit, brimming with energy, talent and ideas and with a playing style that immediately took us to a very different place – a band with a significantly expanded sonic horizons.”

Steve Cox joined the band full time on keys to further flesh out the sound and introduce another perspective to the writing process, before the band signed with Serial Bowl Records in the spring of 2025.

Completing the Dealing With Damage lineup are James Sherry (drums), and Andy Myers (guitar/vocs).

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