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THE DEADMANS

Single: Nice Kid

Release Date: January 2026

Musical style: alt-pop

London-based international alt-pop newcomers The Deadmans reveal

their debut single ‘Nice Kid’, set for release on 13th January 2026 via all

good streaming services.

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.

‘Nice Kid’ is a phenomenal opening salvo from the outfit—a groove

driven, lo-fi cool sleeper hit about the emotional claustrophobia of

being in the wrong rooms with the wrong people; an anthemic

goodbye to meekness. It’s a ‘looking yourself in the eyes in the

bathroom of a lame house party’ wake up call; a slightly drunk,

mascara-smudged, panic attack; heels in hand, bare feet on pavement,

running away before the door gets bolted shut.

Commenting on the track, lyricist LaurenSage Browning says: “I spent

several years of my twenties trying to shapeshift myself to match the

rooms I was in instead of breaking down the door and running to

places where I could exist without all the magic tricks. When I was

writing ‘Nice Kid’, a few of my lived experiences from being 24 in Los

Angeles played on loop in my head. The first: sitting in a swanky

Hollywood Hills office working as an executive assistant—staring at the

air duct as shots of tequila were poured around me by middle aged

men that smelled like tanning lotion—wishing my soul could be sucked

out by that air duct and transported to a place that felt less like my

antithesis.” 

“The second: a visceral memory of doing dishes at a house party full of

people I had no business knowing. Scrubbing their crumbs down the

drain and feeling that moment was rather metaphoric to my own self

dissolving. I was a well-mannered midwest kid who had to find my own

ability to spit out what was not meant for me. Escaping the places that

tried to dull me is what sharpened my teeth enough for me to actually

eat my life, not just lick at it passively. Escaping mouse traps is a great

way to realize you’re not a mouse afterall.”