dEUS never really had a philosophy. They never wanted to have one. Yet they have remained true to certain principles. "You don't want to repeat yourself, but you have your style," says Tom Barman, frontman and genial leader of the cult Belgian art rockers. "You want to try new things and just react to what feels fresh at the moment." So it is with "How To Replace It," their eighth studio album and first in a decade: distinctive and inventive, melodic yet defiantly weird. Unique. And above all: unmistakably dEUS.Even the title - mysterious, quirky - scans as fantastically unrecognizable and hints at deep wisdom. "I like the openness of the title," Barman says.If you follow the lyrical cues, you might conclude that it's about romance and aging; blink a bit and you might conclude that modernity is the discomfort being described. Either way, it's intentional to stir up intrigue. It's a question, it's an answer.... it's up to the listener to decide.
