“This is the saddest song on the record”: Deaf Havana unveil new single, Tracing Lines

Deaf Havana have just unveiled an excellent, poignant new single, Tracing Lines.

Taken from new record We’re Never Getting Out – which is released in just a few weeks’ time, on October 3 via So Recordings – frontman James Veck-Gilodi reveals that this was the last track they wrote for it, with producer George Glew previously feeling “like there was something missing”. “He was right,” James admits. “It ended up being one of my favourite songs on the record.”

The singer continues: “I think it perfectly sums up how I was feeling during that time period, embarrassed about my failed relationship and very aware of my ever increasing age. I found myself at 34 years old, single and living back at my family home with little to nothing to show for the past twenty years of my adult life.

“It’s really about feeling like you’ve wasted so many years of your life and wondering where they went. Whilst friends were building lives and careers for themselves, I’d just been fucking off and fucking up, never taking anything seriously enough. For me, this is the saddest song on the record, but it still has a little glimmer of hope and I think that translates through the music.”

Check out Tracing Lines below:

Catch the band live next month:

Deaf Havana 2025 autumn headline tour

October

2 Glasgow Garage
3 Manchester New Century Hall
5 Birmingham The Crossing
9 Bristol Trinity
10 London KOKO

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