Everyone’s favourite thrash-party headbangers, DZ Deathrays, today deliver their fourth studio album Positive Rising: Part 1 – out everywhere now via I OH YOU! 

To celebrate, the band will open pop-up stores this weekend up and down the east coast starting tonight at Sydney’s Crow Bar, Saturday night at Melbourne’s Lulie Tavern and Brisbane’s The Valley Drive In on Sunday. In partnership with Young Henrys, the pop-up stores offer a chance for fans to celebrate the release of Positive Rising: Part 1, grab a photo with the band, a $7 Young Henrys tinnie and get their hands on a super limited Blue/Gold vinyl (only available at the pop-ups). 

Earlier this week DZ served up ‘Still No Change’, the new punk-inspired single packing a punch of raw punk insouciance. Alongside singer Shane Parsons’ documentation of feeling directionless, “it always feels like the time is wrong, all in all I guess it’s just a little unresolved,” the track is sprinkled with hopeful moments in the form of an underlying pop melody that leaves you humming and tapping along from first listen. It’s a juxtaposition of melancholy and joy – and some of DZ’s most reflective work yet. 
“’Still No Change’ started from a writing session with Kim Moyes (one half of The Presets) and evolved into one of our more melodic moments on the record. Influenced by Ramones and The Strokes, ‘Still No Change’ delves into the idea of expectations of others and yourself to constantly be changing or evolving in life but not always knowing the direction you want to go.” – DZ Deathrays