24 Hour Blogathon - deep tan - Deepfake

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From the band called deep tan (who I first featured back in 2019) comes a song called Deepfake. No the tan and fake elements aren’t anything to do with Donald Trump, but instead a deepfake is the very weird and disturbing idea of someone’s image being used in porn videos even although they were not part of the shoot. Apparently 96% of deepfakes involve porn videos where female celebrities are imposed onto the video without their consent. At the time the band was writing the track, their friend Jessica Winter (who has been featured numerous times through the years on Breaking More Waves in various guises, most recently here) had just discovered that her image had been used in a deepfake porn video. 

The song itself is a comment on consent, the music brooding and strutting with a sense of indie aloofness and features both French and English lyrics. The internet can be a wonderful thing but it can also be a place where people have no thought or regard for others and utterly horrible. 

deep tan - Deepfake

Introducing: deep tan

Whilst I’m not particularly a grammar pedant or vocabulary fascist (anyone reading the catalogue of errors that is this blog should be able to tell this) one thing that does get my back up a little is the growing fashion for not using capital letters where capital letters should be used. I blame the iPhone and eBay for this. 

Now the disease has spread to bands. So, when I first came across new London group deep tan I almost passed them by simply because of their refusal to use a capital D and T. Harsh I know, but you have to use some sort of filter to keep things manageable when there's so much music out there.

This would have been a shame, because deep tan's debut single air is rather good. A neat yet uneasy mix of French Pop, gothy drums and darker atmospherics that subtly hint at the likes of mid 80’s Tears For Fears dancing in the shadows with Editors, White Lies, Warpaint and Interpol, it’s an excellent start. There's even a touch of The XX's early minimalism in there. And unlike the normal method of releasing straight to Spotify, Apple Music and You Tube deep tan keep it old school and have just thrown the track up on Soundcloud. Their Facebook tells us that they make ‘soothing grooves earth shattering moves’ and that they’ve been playing a number of gigs in and around London, which for now is enough to know. Get acquainted with the song as we keep an eye and ear out for more from this promising bunch.

deep tan - air