[Photo credit to Josh Hight]

London-based three-piece, deary have announced their debut full-length album, Birding, due out April 3, 2026 via Bella Union. Helmed by Rebecca “Dottie” Cockram (guitar, vocals), Ben Easton (guitar) and Harry Catchpole (drums), the band met and formed in 2020 over a shared love of Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, and MBV. Lead single “Seabird” is out now.

The band’s self-produced album blends Shoegaze and Trip-Hop beats and the new album explores their own life experiences “in the context of the modern world and through religious iconography, dealing with innocence, grief, mental health, nature and the human experience.” 

Ben says:

With the whole bird theme, there was also a direct nod to religious iconography—the majesty of feeling insignificant in the wider world. “Seabird” is like a fable, a story of this person pleading to a bird and asking, ‘When does it get better?’ We wanted to recreate that kind of majesty, feeling insignificant to the wider world. It is the perfect introduction to the rest of the record in that regard.

Ben shares about the album’s themes:

I was writing the record in one of the worst periods of my life. I was not in a good space at all. Our last EP, Aurelia, was about transition, and how it’s cool to change. And Birding is, ‘Oh no, I‘ve made some really disruptive life decisions.’ The album came from an isolated, almost hopeless space, and you can hear that in parts of the record. But there are also moments that are very self-loving and meditative, and a bit more uplifting.