Keep You Close

It doesn’t take a smart band to know that music is at its best when it connects with someone. It does however take a very smart band to be able to maintain that connection over the space of 20 years. Even a group like dEUS- with all their amassed musical intelligence, astuteness and ingenuity- can lose their grasp on that elementary principle. As he looks back at their last album ‘Vantage Point,’ front man Tom Barman admits that despite enjoying almost universal critical praise, they did indeed lose some of their vital human touch. “It was a great record and I’m very proud of it but there was something a little distant about ‘Vantage Point,’” he offers. “I never really thought of dEUS as a distant band. I’ve always thought of us as being a band that touches people. I’ve always wanted everyone to derive a sense of warmth from dEUS and that’s the sort of place that the new album is coming from. Hence the title- ‘Keep You Close.’