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ROLL IT OUT (2024)

Roll It Out Album Credits & Lyrics HERE
Roll It Out Album Announcement Press Release HERE

"...both nostalgic yet evolving... Even back to its founding, the band has stretched the definition of Americana" - Glide Magazine 

"One of the most consistent bands putting out music today" - No Depression 

"... a stripped-down effort that is as warm and inviting as the first tipple from the Sazerac Bar. 'Hold on Liza' and 'Pour Another Round' peak with sing-along choruses after pulsing guitar riffs and brass and horns. The bouncy folk of 'I'll Do It' morphs into a Sticky Fingers-era rocker with a massive Keith Richards-approved descending riff, while the mournful shuffle of 'Grand Junction' looks back on their rough and rowdy early days with a skeptical eye. Roll It Out is the sound of a band hurtling toward a fresh start, ony to find themselves back in a familiar place, wiser and with a couple more battle scars." - Garden & Gun 

"The Deslondes feel just as much like a musical institution as they do a 'band.' Along with 15 years of history and four albums from the New Orleans-based outfit, they have been chief collaborators both separately and together in some of the best roots music over that period." - Saving Country Music 

"This grand New Orleans collective returns to the fray with an infectious dollop of soulful funk and slippery grooves... Roll It Out deserves to be heard far and wide." - Americana UK 

"While The Deslondes may not be bound by blood, they congeal musically with an intimacy and fraternal connection seldom displayed by other acts." - Rock and Blues Muse 

Press Highlights:
Garden & Gun: Feature & Full Album Premiere HERE
Magnet Magazine: Track x Track Feature HERE
Holler: Album Announcement News HERE
Holler: “Old Plank Road” Video Premiere HERE
American Songwriter: Album Announcement News HERE
Paste Magazine: “I’ll Do It” Premiere HERE
Magnet Magazine: “Lies I’ve Told” Premiere HERE
Glide Magazine: Album Review HERE
No Depression: Album Review HERE
American Songwriter: Feature HERE
Saving Country Music: Most Anticipated Albums Final Part of 2024 HERE
Saving Country Music: Album Review HERE
Rock and Blues Muse: Album Review HERE
Americana UK: Album Review HERE

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WAYS & MEANS (2022)

Ways & Means Album Credits & Lyrics HERE
Ways & Means Album Announcement Press Release HERE

Best Music of 2022 - Staff Picks - Rolling Stone
#18 Best Album of 2022 - Holler
The Best Albums of 2022 - Goldmine

"It makes for an exciting comeback, almost reckless in its inventiveness." 8/10 - Uncut Magazine

"Stop what you’re doing! The Deslondes are back!... 'South Dakota Wild One’ is nothing short of magnificent." - Holler

"...their strongest, most eclectic sound yet, setting the bar where all future records will be judged...the band sounds remarkably inspired on Ways & Means." - Glide Magazine

"...The Deslondes seem more in sync than ever, even as they stretch across rootsy Americana, ’70s psych, lo-fi garage rock, and some good old country-western...The deftness with which they morph and touch each sonic corner of their universe makes the album go down easy." - No Depression

These five veterans have got back to the basics of who they are and why they play together, and the results speak for themselves” 8.5 out of 10 - Staff Pick - Holler

"...The Deslondes seem more in sync than ever, even as they stretch across rootsy Americana, ’70s psych, lo-fi garage rock, and some good old country-western...The deftness with which they morph and touch each sonic corner of their universe makes the album go down easy." - No Depression

“The arrangements on the album showcase a band reaching its creative peak." - Offbeat

"...by blending their collective vision with allure and character, there's no question that this group of pals and extraordinary songwriters is honing its own Big Easy neighborhood sound into some of the most intoxicating and mystifying music you might hear today." - Parklife DC

Press Highlights:
Rolling Stone: Best Music of 2022 - Staff Picks HERE
Rolling Stone: The Best Things We Saw at SXSW HERE
Holler: #18 Best Album of 2022 HERE
Goldmine: The Best Albums of 2022 HERE
Holler: “Home Sweet Home” Feature HERE
Holler: 8.5/10 Staff Pick Album Review HERE
Holler: “South Dakota Wild One” Premiere & Album Announcement HERE
Magnet Magazine: “Dunes” Video Premiere HERE
Flood Magazine: “Five Year Plan” Video Premiere HERE
Under the Radar: “Good To Go” Video Premiere HERE
The Bluegrass Situation: “Ways & Means” Premiere HERE
Pitchfork: Album Announcement News HERE
The Big Takeover: Feature HERE
No Depression: Album Announcement News HERE
Brooklyn Vegan: Album Announcement News HERE
SPIN: Riley Downing in 2022 Baseball Season Preview HERE
Glide Magazine: Album Review HERE
No Depression: Album Review HERE
Wide Open Country: “Rooted in Country” Feature HERE
All Music: Album Review HERE
Flagpole: Feature HERE
Ditty TV: Five Questions Feature HERE
My Spilt Milk: Feature HERE
Entertainment Focus: Album Review HERE
Antigravity Magazine: Album Review HERE
Offbeat: Album Review HERE

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Hurry Home (2017)

Press Release, "Hurricane Shakedown" Premiere – PDF
Press Release, Album Announcement & "Muddy Water" Premiere – PDF

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THE DESLONDES RETURN WITH HURRY HOME JUNE 23rd, 2017 VIA NEW WEST RECORDS 

AMERICAN SONGWRITER PREMIERES “HURRICANE SHAKEDOWN” VIDEO

INITIAL TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

NASHVILLE, TN (May 11, 2017) – The Deslondes are set to return with their sophomore album Hurry Home on June 23rd via New West Records. The 13-song set continues their studied and inventive take on New Orleans country and R&B but also represents a sonic shift with a more electrified sound. Long combining elements of early Stax, Sun, and Atlantic Records with the influence of a more raw, stripped-down sound gleaned off field recordings from Alan Lomax and the Mississippi Records catalog, the band have now incorporated psychedelic flourishes that bring to mind the sonic experimentation of Joe Meek, Lee Hazlewood and The Velvet Underground. Lauded as "burgeoning stars" by The New York Times, Hurry Home is the follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed 2014 eponymous debut that NPR Music called “energized, elegant and new,” and Pitchfork awarded a 7.9 rated review stating that it “introduces a band that sounds confident and fully formed."  For Hurry Home, the band split up songwriting and lead vocal duties among its five members, Sam Doores, Riley Downing, Dan Cutler, John James Tourville, and Cameron Snyder, continuing its democratic ethos and musical versatility. American Songwriter premiered the new video for the song “Hurricane Shakedown,” calling it “a nifty rockabilly number sure to get your feet moving,” today and can be seen Here. Speaking to the magazine about the song, pedal steel and fiddle player John James Tourville, said “It was written as a rock and roll song inspired about my wife shaking me down for loving.”  Rolling Stone Country previously premiered the video for the album opener "Muddy Water,” stating, “Written and sung by Riley Downing, ‘Muddy Water’ doesn't actually fit the band's newly rock-leaning form...it's a languid, simmering acoustic ballad colored by nostalgia and the stifling humidity of a Louisiana summer,” continuing, “The video, shot along the Mississippi River, has a surreal Stand By Me vibe, centering around a group of young boys who play dead ringers for the members of the Deslondes.” The Deslondes have also announced their initial tour dates in support of the record, beginning June 6th in Austin, TX (Please see all dates below).  Hurry Home will be available digitally, on compact disc, as well as LP and can be pre-ordered now Here.    

Named after the street in the Holy Cross neighborhood of New Orleans where the band first came together, The Deslondes have continued to tour relentlessly since Doores and Cutler departed their roles in Hurray For The Riff Raff to focus entirely on the band.  The Deslondes met up last winter at New West Records’ studio and rehearsal space in Athens, GA., and recorded everything for five days, working out new songs and arrangements.  With a batch of 20 new songs, they invited their longtime producer & engineer Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Benjamin Booker) to New Orleans to begin tracking that summer, creating a makeshift recording studio at The Tigermen Den in the Bywater neighborhood.  The album that emerged was Hurry Home.  “It’s a fitting title for this album because our lives and our songwriting revolve around leaving and returning, or searching for, home,” says the band.  “And home can be a physical place, a relationship, or a state of mind.”   

Recordings from the early sessions, including “Just In Love,” “Muddy Water,” and “Better Be Lonely,” bear the mark of a hot New Orleans summer: a lack-of air conditioning, and creaky wood floors, which yield a languid, dreamy sound.  Elsewhere on the New Orleans sessions is the feel of the city’s classic R&B, music made for dancing like “Sad Song” and “Hurricane Shakedown.”  Over several sessions back at Tokic’s Nashville studio during the Fall of 2016, The Deslondes finalized the album, pushing their sound forward with new tracks like “Nelly” and the gospel-influenced title track.  Downing’s songs bookend the album: the wistful opener, “Muddy Water,” recalling the “small town kids” of his Missouri childhood; and the closing ballad, “Déjà Vu And A Blue Moon,” which he says is “an ode to those who've spent a lot of time on the road, and maybe they always will.”  A must-see live act, The Deslondes have toured the country extensively and have supported the Alabama Shakes, Hurray For The Riff Raff, The Lumineers, John Fullbright, Michael Kiwanuka and more.  

HURRY HOME TRACK LISTING:
1. Muddy Water
2. One Of These Lonesome Mornings
3. (This Ain’t A) Sad Song
4. She Better Be Lonely
5. Every Well
6. Ribbon Creeks Collide
7. Hurry Home
8. Nelly
9. Hurricane Shakedown
10. Just In Love With You
11. Many Poor Boy
12. Beautiful Friend
13. Déjà Vu And A Blue Moon

praise for hurry home

"The self-described Americana band takes Woodie Guthrie-inspired folk techniques and blends it with harder riffs and psychedelic rock. The Deslondes have found a comfortable sound to create art in, and it serves them well." - Vice/Noisey

"[Hurry Home] creeps up, gradually engulfing the listener with its straightforward self-confidence, letting the subtle sometimes slow-burn songcraft, refreshing diversity and undeniable vocal and lyrical poise entice you back for another spin." - American Songwriter

"...a gritty, grimy mix of early rock 'n' roll and lo-fi R&B..." - Rolling Stone Country

"On their terrific second album...New Orleans quintet [The] Deslondes settle into a sweet spot at the nexus of various threads of southern sounds, building on the low-key charms of their eponymous 2015 debut." - Chicago Reader

"...a retro country feel, with just a hint of ’60s pop..." - The Boot

PREMIERES/EXCLUSIVES

Rolling Stone Country – "Muddy Water" Video Premiere

American Songwriter – "Hurricane Shakedown" Video Premiere

The Boot – "(This Ain't a) Sad Song" Video Premiere

Noisey – Album Premiere

ALBUM ACCOLADES/FEATURES

Uncut – “Favorite Albums of 2017”

Uncut – "The Best Albums of 2017: Halftime Report"

OffBeat Magazine – "The Deslondes: In A Hurry To Take It Slow"

Gambit Weekly – "Close To Home"

APPEARANCES/SESSIONS

Paste Magazine NYC Session

Glide Magazine – “Déjà Vu And A Blue Moon” Luck Sessions Premiere

ALBUM REVIEWS

American Songwriter, Chicago Reader, Record Dept Reviews, Hear Ya Immortal Reviews

Tour Dates

CONTACTS

Management

Davis Inman – coinrecords@gmail.com

Press: New West Records

Brady Brock – bradybrock@newwestrecords.com

Radio: New West Records

Joel Habbeshaw – joel@newwestrecords.com