London-based international alt-pop newcomers The Deadmans are delighted to announce that their debut self-titled album, The Deadmans, will be released on 24th April 2026.

Written and recorded in Paris, London, Brooklyn, Silverlake (Los Angeles) and Brunswick Heads (Australia), drums on the album were recorded at Up Top Studios in St Albans, with additional production and mixing by Jake Black (Stereo Honey, Sletta) at can.b, and mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty (Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey) at Nomograph Mastering.

To celebrate the news, the band are sharing sleek and effortlessly cool new single ‘If Arizona Didn’t Exist’, out now on all good streaming services— a breakup song that’s more interested in calling a truce than settling the score.

“This song was written as an act of perceiving my own petulance in hindsight,” says lyricist LaurenSage Browning of the track. “It takes the intensity of an ‘opposites-attract’ early twenties relationship and turns it into a bashful thank you dipped in a cheeky eye roll. ‘If Arizona Didn’t Exists’ resuscitates all the ifs, ands, and buts of dead end love and frames it as something worthwhile, even if ultimately unsustainable.” 

“Gently indifferent gratitude isn’t sexy and doesn’t often get airtime in the discussion of fizzled out love stories, but I think it’s a very common final-destination emotion to land on for a mismatched pairing of two decent, but gravely different people. This is a thank you for a long expired experience, albeit with a heavy dose of sarcasm and relief too.”

“Route 93 is a road that you can spend days driving on, to only find yourself in bumper to bumper Las Vegas traffic. It’s a road I avoid driving now, but know so well that when I’m flying to LA, I spot it from the plane window without trying to. It’s also where I had the romantically fatal conversation which gives this song its introduction.”

The track is accompanied, as ever from the multi-talented group, by a highly cinematic self-produced official music video, made by band members Harry Deadman and LaurenSage Browning, with cinematography by Maximillian McKay, starring vocalist Nikki DeParis and August Gray Gall, First AC Ryan Bradford, VFX by Porosus, and Color Grade by Megan Lee at Electric Theatre Collective.

“We wanted this video to feel campy and glib to align with the 21-year-old-petulance that this song reflects on,” says band member Harry Deadman. “We shot on 16mm film on a desolate plot off the side of Pear Blossom Highway. Using the mid-roadtrip-strandedness as a sort of ‘Waiting for Godot’ container, we let sincerity seem cheap and light when framed through the ‘nothing-better-to-do-ness’ of waiting.”

The track follows on from debut single ‘Nice Kid’ which was released earlier this year to enthusiastic nods of approval from key tastemakers at Record of The Day, LOUD WOMEN, At The Barrier and more.

Image provided by Maximilian McKay