The Next Big Thing (No.42) : Deptford Goth

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His name will eventually channel you to a goth music. Apparently, he is not a Siouxsie whisperer. Daniel Woolhouse or as known as Deptford Goth is a South London-based musician. His stage name doesn’t mirror of what his music would sound. ‘Goth’ is a name that he picked for his MySpace and ‘Deptford’ is a name where he went for a primary school. For Deptford Goth, being a musician is simply making a balance of his own music. He mixed all of the samples to make it sound like a real-life instrument. And some of his best works come out of a bedroom. Literally.

Woolhouse lived his music in a different two world. By day, he spends his time being a teaching assistant and by night, he takes a drive as a singer/songwriter. He grew up in the Britpop era and messed around by writing a guitar pop song in his early teens. While he was busy blending with britpops, he found himself a new influence of making music, Neil Young and Bob Dylan.

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For a fan of emotive pop, Woolhouse must have seemed not like a newcomer. In 2011, he produced an EP, ‘Youth II’, via Merok Records. The EP contains of four songs which are being tied strongly with an influence of synth pop music and a touch of R&B music. Most of Deptford Goth’s works has a strong approach with his emotion and introspective lyrics. In his debut album, ‘Life After Defo’, he steps up his music to another level of an emotive pop. His music pleasantly reminds us to The XX or How To Dress Well, and of course, despite of the comparison, Woolhouse still does it with his beautiful originality. One of the finest songs from this album, ‘Union’, describes a lot of love and breakups, but amazingly, we don’t find it lousy becaue this song is complemented with a haunting vocal.
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We see Woolhouse’s work as a complex art coated in a captivating record. You may name him as another version Bon Iver, How To Dress Well, or The XX, but we find Woolhouse has turned Deptford Goth to a sensitive music worker who will blow your mind. Rebecca Nicholson of the Guardian wrote his music, “Sensitive, synth-nurturing young men of a delicate timbre were all over music a couple of years ago, and this saturation makes Daniel Woolhouse, aka Deptford Goth, a difficult sell: the music is dreamy, he’s pensive, and he sings as if he’s mortified at the thought of being overheard.”. With songs that closely will become everyone’s anthem of broke-ups, Deptford Goth’s songs are just going to be there to accompany your bittersweet memories in a classy way.