The Death Set Return With First New Album In A Decade

Brooklyn party punks The Death Set are primed to return with their third album, How To Tune A Parrot, on September 10th via Cobraside Records and Behemoth Records. This album finds the band distilled down to the duo of Johnny Siera and Dan Walker and is their first full-length release since 2011’s Michel Poiccard. How To Tune A Parrot follows on the heels of a sustained period of sobriety and personal introspection that brings a new depth to the band’s trademark incandescent bursts of twisted noise pop.

How To Tune A Parrot delivers 12 other new songs that are served up in 2-minute bursts of distorted melodies, buzzing synths and frantic beats, all overlaid with bratty vocals that set their sites on disparate topics, from creative blocks, to NYC’s dark underbelly, and to embracing bad decision making. This tradition continues with the video for No Where Is Here, which collages 2006-2010 NYC DIY show footage against a a twisted visual of Johnny and Dan playing guitars with their heads reversed in a something homage to the song’s lyric “I had to move far away, just to keep my head straight”.

“‘No Where is Here’ is a response to the feeling that you have nowhere to go. Remembering that no matter how fucked up the situation or head space is that I gotta start digging my way out, starting right here. The video is a nostalgic look at the NYC DIY scene from 2006-2010. Show documenter Torsten Meyer gifted me with hours of old footage and it had to be made into something special. There’s a line in the song “I had to move far away, just to keep my head straight” and it got me thinking how ridiculous it would look playing guitar with a backwards head. In an Exorcist or Beetlejuice type of way. A short test run and Dan and I went straight into my makeshift studio in my garage with our clothes off. The good sport he is…” (Johnny Siera)