Do I have to be strong enough? I don’t know what to do.

October 17, 2020 4:08 PM

Deep Sea Diver has a new album, Impossible Weight. It's really good guitar oriented moody rock, stop reading and go listen.

You're back? Liked the album? OK. It has been described as "pensive but powerful. The first single is the eopnymous Impossible Wieght, featuring Sharon Van Etten. The band is fronted by Jessica Dobson, who's played with Beck, The Shins and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She was recently on the JHS Show, talking gear and music showing off her guitar skills and tweaking her pedals with her foot.
Their previous album was Secrets, which is also great.

posted by signal (10 comments total)

Impossible Weight is a pretty darn good single.

But I'm commenting because it was a really odd moment to see a house I regularly go past on my walks (at least pre-COVID) through the neighborhood in the video (at this timestamp).
posted by tclark at 4:18 PM on October 17, 2020

Are they from the PNW? All the desert scenes in the Impossible Weight video look like they were shot at Frenchman's Coulee, in central Washington. Anyway, thanks for this, good stuff.
posted by Pantengliopoli at 4:35 PM on October 17, 2020

This kind of music is totally my jam. Thank you for posting this.
posted by snwod at 5:28 PM on October 17, 2020

here's Sharon Van Etten performing Peace Signs from her 2010 album Epic
posted by are-coral-made at 6:27 PM on October 17, 2020

Some really good music here. Thanks for the post & helping make this discovery.
posted by armoir from antproof case at 9:16 PM on October 17, 2020

The link to the album goes to a bunch of choices for listening. Since I don't use any of those platforms I picked youtube but that only goes to the title track and then veers off into some unrelated playlist. The "Official Store" link goes to Bandcamp which lets you listen to the entire album without ads and without buying it first. I find it odd that Bandcamp isn't branded in that list of options.

That said, nice album and thanks for posting it.
posted by mwalimu at 10:02 PM on October 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

Oh a lot of that video of the title track is definitely here in Seattle.
posted by taterpie at 10:18 PM on October 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

I think the theatre-looking space in Impossible Weight was the Neptune in Seattle.

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EDIT: Looking at the description on YouTube, it was!
posted by fnerg at 11:57 PM on October 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

yesss, I love them. It's been SO. LONG. since new music.
posted by FirstMateKate at 9:45 AM on October 18, 2020

I thought that theater looked familiar, but I couldn't place it.
posted by Pantengliopoli at 10:35 AM on October 18, 2020