Watch this! Vampire Weekend’s Baio back with new album and two singles – Louder Than War

Vampire Weekends Baio releases his third solo album in January and trails it with new singles Endless Me, Endlessly and What Do You Say When Im Not There?

Baio recordedDead Hand Control over 18 months at Damon Albarns 13 Studios in London, as well as C+C Music Factory which he founded with bandmate Chris Tomson in Los Angeles.

The album takes its name from a rumoured Soviet missile system designed to obliterate America, and a legal strategy for attempting to control the beneficiaries of your will after you die.

I was looking at the past five years of American life and obsessing about topics like death, wills and nuclear war,Biao says of the albums origins. But at its heart, its about how the only thing you can control is the way you treat the people in your life.

Baio zigzags between techno, art rock and a dash of funk, exploring what it means to care for one another in a society in upheaval. The buoyant Talking Heads-inspired Endless Me, Endlessly is an undeniable proclamation of selflessness.

Endless Me, Endlessly is a simple song about being there in every possible capacity for someone else, reflects Baio. Through hard times just as much as good times. In a way, its a bit of a fantasy a single person cannot be everything to someone else. Lately, though, I have found fantasy to be a thing of comfort.

That theme is echoed in the video for the track where he is recorded performing celebratory acts backwards. Conversely, What Do You Say When Im Not There? is the polar opposite emotionally as an ode to insecurity, and the fact that you can never truly know what is going on in someone elses mind.

The album features Baios long time guitarist George Hume, drummer and State Department Jazz Ambassador Robby Sinclair, Future Classics Buzzy Lee, and VW touring member Greta Morgan, on backing vocals. The album was made with Baios long time engineer John Foyle, and mixed by Lars Stalfors whos worked with St. Vincent, Still Woozy.

Dead Hand Controlmarks a big year for Baio which saw a Grammy win for Best Alternative Album for Vampire Weekend, an EP release from C.Y.M., Baios project with Mike Greene and the launch ofRingerpodcastThe Road Takenhosted by Baio & Tomson.

Dead Hand Controlcan be pre-ordered at:https://lnk.to/DeadHandControlPR

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Words by Paul Clarke, you can see his author profile here.

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Watch this! Vampire Weekend's Baio back with new album and two singles - Louder Than War