Premiere: Dead Fibres - Something's Wrong With My Head

Cups N Cakes is very excited to announce the long awaited new album from the Edmonton/Vancouver noise-punk trio, Dead Fibres. Since their formation in 2014, Dead Fibres have carved their space in the Canadian music community through extensive touring and an early steady output of releases. The band truly honed their craft in their early years and turned into an absolute beast. They’ve remained active with live shows but their last release was 2017s Stashbox, and we can confidently say that they’re grown in leaps and bounds sonically since that EP was released.

So, it gives us great joy to announce that their new album, John. Q. Citizen, will be released on July 9th. The album was recorded throughout 2019 with Chris Dadge (Lab Coast, Chad Van Gaalen, Samantha Savage Smith). The band took a different approach to recording the album, fleshing out songs and experimenting with new elements while in the studio. The result is their most experimental and sonically diverse album to date.

Today we also get the premiere the second single from the forthcoming record (the first single, “Quarterly report” was featured by CnC in October of 2021) The track is called “Something’s Wrong With My Head” and it definitely fits the “single” criteria as one of Dead Fibres most direct and structured songs to date. The band called it their “take on a pop song” but don’t take that description to heart… this is still a noise-punk tune. Lyrically the song questions the feeling of never really having your things together and the paranoid thoughts that come along with bad decisions.

It arrives today in the form of a music video that dives deeper into themes of disillusionment as the two main characters spiral into a shared psychotic breakdown. Enjoy it below and catch Dead Fibres at Calgary’s Sled Island Music Festival June 22 - 26 or in Edmonton July 9th at the Aviary for the John. Q. Citizen release show.