It probably seems like deary get an automatic bye when it comes to making it onto my posting schedule, but it’s not like it’s not earned – the London duo have been on a winning streak since coming onto the scene at the start of last year, through last year’s delightful debut EP, and they’re not letting up.
As expected, their run of new singles over this past Summer have coalesced into a new release – their second EP Aurelia will be released on November 1. It comes with the following press release, explaining how the duo – who’ve also given up the mononyms they’d used since their first releases – have gotten to these new recordings:
“It leans on the natural world, the human body, the earth and sky as well as human emotion,” says Ben of how the EP represents physical and metaphysical growth. “Change can be daunting but equally exciting, which is something we’ve come to learn.”
“While writing the EP, I found a letter I had written to myself when I was 22,” adds Dottie. “I was fresh out of university and had moved back in with my parents as Covid was in full force. I was uninspired and lost and reaching out to my future self for some hope. It was a physical representation of what can happen in a few years; how much can change and how you never know what’s coming next.”
“I found it interesting that – at the age of 26 – here I was looking back to my younger self for hope or just some comfort in the fact that things will and do move on. It was important to me to bring both of these versions of myself into the new songs.”
“We’ve allowed deary to naturally grow over the past year, we didn’t want to force it to take a certain shape or sound,” explains Dottie of the duo’s slow and steady approach. “A lot of the last EP was written by sending ideas back and forth over WhatsApp, but this time we were able to sit in the same room and I think that really shows. We know each other a lot better now as we have experienced this journey together and that benefits the writing process as we are more open with each other and can be vulnerable.”
“Aurelia definitely feels a lot more collaborative, more personal and more fully realised than the first EP,” concludes Ben. “It feels like a real document of what has been a very important time in both of our lives. Ironically, the band has changed and matured even more since the recording, so we’re both excited to document the next stage.”
Ben Easton and Rebecca ‘Dottie’ Cockram, deary.
NEWS: deary announce new EP ‘Aurelia’ & Share video for haunting new single ‘The Drift’ @ God Is In The TV
To go with the news, they’ve released a third track from the EP with accompanying video. With half the new record already out there, this is likely to be the last preview before its release, but if it’s not… you’ll almost certainly read about it here!
