Deux Visages will release their debut album Call It Goodbye in November, with new single Automatic revealing how the pressure of their first record deal shaped the record.
by Paul Cashmere
Philadelphia-based trio Deux Visages have announced their debut album, Call It Goodbye, due November 6 through Pure Noise Records, with the new single Automatic offering a glimpse into the uncertainty and self-doubt that accompanied the band’s rapid rise from high school musicians to a signed recording act.
Vocalist Daphney Hanono, guitarist Jack Chiu and bassist Tony Jouvin formed Deux Visages in Miami after connecting through a thread of high school direct messages. Their early development moved quickly, taking them from local performances and independently released material to an Atlantic Records deal, touring opportunities and, eventually, a move from Miami to Philadelphia.
That accelerated trajectory is central to Call It Goodbye. Rather than treating the band’s early success as a straightforward breakthrough story, the album looks back at the disruption that came with it and considers what it means to move beyond that period.
Automatic is particularly direct about that experience. Hanono describes the song as an internal monologue about feeling “less than” and “predictable”, while connecting its writing to the band’s earliest period under a major record deal.
“A lot of this track has to do with things crashing down around us with our first record deal,” Hanono says. “It was our early days as a band and touring, and we weren’t feeling worthy or ready to handle all of these major changes.”
That perspective gives the album’s title a second meaning. Call It Goodbye is framed around leaving an earlier version of the band behind, while acknowledging the uncertainty that comes with doing so. The songs move between vulnerability and heavier guitar passages, reflecting the tension between wanting to change and confronting the experiences that made that change necessary.
Deux Visages recorded the album in Miami with Arquimides “Arkii” Cala, a longtime friend who also worked on the band’s early recordings, including their first single, Cheetah. His role connects the debut album to the band’s beginnings, even as the material looks towards a different stage of their development.
The recording also retains the characteristics that have defined Deux Visages’ music to this point, combining dreamy passages with feedback-heavy guitars and abrupt dynamic shifts. Always You provides one of the album’s more expansive moments, while Behind takes a more immediate approach. The title track closes the record with a sense of urgency around the passage of time.
The album follows an unusually compressed early career for a band whose members first began playing together during high school. Their growing profile led to support appearances with Mannequin Pssy, julie and Wunderhorse, while their live performances became an important part of the band’s development.
The move from Miami to Philadelphia also marked a significant change in the band’s circumstances. By the time Deux Visages began working towards Call It Goodbye, the trio had already experienced the shift from making music in a local scene to navigating recording contracts, touring and a rapidly changing creative environment.
Pure Noise Records is now overseeing the release of the band’s first full-length album. The label announcement follows the band’s earlier run of singles and EP material, with Call It Goodbye bringing those separate stages together into a single statement.
For Deux Visages, the record is ultimately concerned with change rather than nostalgia. The songs look back at instability, uncertainty and the growing pains of becoming a working band, while also confronting the need to move forward.
The trio have also continued to build their live schedule around the album cycle. Following a North American run with Sweet Pill, Deux Visages are set to join The Linda Lindas for East Coast dates including shows in New York City, Philadelphia and Boston.
Call It Goodbye will be released November 6, with Automatic available now alongside its music video. The 11-track album documents a band still close enough to its beginnings to examine them, but far enough removed to say goodbye.
Call It Goodbye Track Listing:
Disengage
Always You
Behind
Missed Calls
Automatic
Afterthought
Fleeting Wishes
Silhouette
Paint Myself Blue
Pixelate
Call It Goodbye
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