Deap Vally announce their final release, SISTRIONIX 2.0

Deap Vally also share their cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Ventilator Blues” along with its accompanying lyric video, which was conceived and edited by the band’s Julie Edwards and filmed by Anthony Ferrara and Dan Clarke over a 12 year period.

“Ventilator Blues” is the latest track to be released from SISTRIONIX 2.0 and follows “Baby I Call Hell” (Deap Vally’s Version) which was released earlier this year. The track was originally recorded in 2014 for a Rolling Stones compilation record which was shelved.

"Covering “Ventilator Blues” was a special privilege to pay homage to one of the greatest and most seminal bands in the history of rock ’n’ roll. We recorded this song in 2014 and it has been in the vaults ever since, so I’m glad it’s finally seeing the light of day," says Lindsey Troy.

“"Ventilator Blues", one of our favourite Rolling Stones songs, is a song about the inevitable end we are all hurtling towards, and we felt it was a perfect way to soundtrack the final chapter of Deap Vally," adds Edwards. "To assemble this video, I sifted through archival footage from twelve years of heavy riffs, sweat, and dream fulfilment. This was a very cathartic exercise and I recommend it for anyone confronting the end of a project that meant everything to them. This video would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of videographer and director Anthony Ferrera, who filmed some of our earliest shows, and has continued to bear digital witness to us up until the present day.”

The forthcoming double LP will include demos, previously unreleased covers, re-recordings of limited release b-sides and rarities and more.

To commemorate their swan-song moment, Deap Vally are set to perform a series of final concert appearances, where they will play SISTRIONIX in its entirety. The band will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the album with US our dates on the west coast in November and will play shows on in the midwest and east coast in early 2024. UK dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

“SISTRIONIX is just classic Deap Vally. It’s so pure and raw. It really encapsulates an era — an era of dank, yeasty backstage rooms across the UK, of the endorphin rush of that first wave of success, of youthful drunken, wild nights, of the worldly adventures and the newness of it all," Troy says. “We’re just going to go to play as many places as we can and say farewell to everyone,” Edwards adds. “Though the band is playing live for the last time, the door is open to us to collaborate. Now we’re all about re-establishing a workflow and connection around our friendship, after all we’ve shared together along the way.