{"id":903288,"date":"2026-05-03T06:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/dearys-debut-album-birding-is-sonically-gorgeous\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:21:20","slug":"dearys-debut-album-birding-is-sonically-gorgeous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/dearys-debut-album-birding-is-sonically-gorgeous\/","title":{"rendered":"deary\u2019s Debut Album \u2018Birding\u2019 Is Sonically Gorgeous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music <\/p>\n<div id=\"page\">\n<div>\n<p>The band blossom on their first full length&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n                                            07 \u00b7 04 \u00b7 2026                                        <\/p>\n<div>\n<article id=\"article-full\" about=\"\/news\/track-of-the-day-284-lexie-carroll\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n<div property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>UK dream pop group <strong>deary<\/strong> have shared their debut album \u2018Birding\u2019 in full.<\/p>\n<p>The three-piece \u2013 <strong>Rebecca \u201cDottie\u201d Cockram<\/strong>\u00a0(guitar, vocals),\u00a0<strong>Ben Easton<\/strong>\u00a0(guitar) and\u00a0<strong>Harry Catchpole<\/strong>\u00a0(drums) \u2013 aligned around a mutual passion for guitar music at its most melodically expansive, allowing their distinctive style to germinate in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Feather-soft constructions of real beauty, deary\u2019s early singles \u2013 and a support slow alongside shoegaze doyens Slowdive \u2013 left them emboldened.<\/p>\n<p>Working with revered independent <strong>Bella Union<\/strong>, debut album \u2018Birding\u2019 took shape across several months. 11 tracks that reinterpret shoegaze tropes from a distinctive perspective, you can hear aspects of my bloody valentine and Cocteau Twins there, alongside the stamp of Asobi Seksu, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Sonically, it could be a lost 4AD release from 1989, but the songwriting feels distinctive, and definitively true to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Out now, the record comes equipped with a video for album cut \u2018Smile\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"deary - Smile (Official Visualiser)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z_OsWpKUnrg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Photo Credit: <strong>Josh Hight\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n                                            &#8211;\n                                        <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n                                                Join the Clash mailing list for up to the minute music, fashion and film news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/news\/dearys-debut-album-birding-is-sonically-gorgeous\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music The band blossom on their first full length&#8230; 07 \u00b7 04 \u00b7 2026 UK dream pop group deary have shared their debut album \u2018Birding\u2019 in full. The three-piece \u2013 Rebecca \u201cDottie\u201d Cockram\u00a0(guitar, vocals),\u00a0Ben Easton\u00a0(guitar) and\u00a0Harry Catchpole\u00a0(drums) \u2013 aligned around a mutual passion for guitar music at its most melodically expansive, allowing their distinctive style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131522],"class_list":{"0":"post-903288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-news","8":"tag-podcast-music"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}