Lonely People with Power

Like its predecessor Infinite Granite, the album was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen.{{Cite web |last=Sacher |first=Andrew |title=Deafheaven release their heaviest song in 10 years with "Magnolia," announce new LP (exclusive color vinyl!) |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/deafheaven-release-their-heaviest-song-in-10-years-with-magnolia-announce-new-lp-exclusive-color-vinyl/ |access-date=January 28, 2025 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}} It was recorded at EastWest Studios in Hollywood, California. It features additional vocal contributions from Boy Harsher's Jae Matthews and Interpol's Paul Banks.{{Cite web |last=Duran |first=Anagricel |title=Deafheaven announce new album 'Lonely People With Power' with heavy single 'Magnolia' |url=https://www.wtyefm.com/2025/01/27/deafheaven-announce-new-album-lonely-people-with-power-with-heavy-single-magnolia/ |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=WTYE / WTAY |language=en}}

On January 27, 2025, Deafheaven announced Lonely People with Power, simultaneously releasing its lead single, "Magnolia".{{Cite web |last=Galiher |first=Stephen Andrew |date=January 27, 2025 |title=Deafheaven Announce New Album 'Lonely People With Power,' Unleash Brutal New Single 'Magnolia' |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/deafheaven-new-album-lonely-people-with-power-new-single-magnolia/ |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=January 27, 2025 |title=Deafheaven Announce New Album 'Lonely People With Power': Hear "Magnolia" |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2294358/deafheaven-announce-new-album-lonely-people-with-power-hear-magnolia/music/ |access-date=January 28, 2025 |website=Stereogum |language=en}} In an interview, Sam Law of Kerrang! noted the song's more aggressive sound compared to most of Deafheaven's other material, with vocalist George Clarke replying "Yes, Magnolia is quite musically aggressive. And there are parts throughout the record that sound similar. There is definitely a degree of ferocity to Lonely People With Power, but it has always been an aim for Deafheaven to maintain an emotional core and not to see things through any singular lens."{{Cite web |date=January 27, 2025 |title="That spirit of playing fast and hard has been reinvigorated":… |url=https://www.kerrang.com/deafheaven-new-album-lonely-people-with-power-george-clarke-interview |access-date=January 28, 2025 |website=Kerrang! |language=en}} The music video for "Magnolia", directed by Sean Stout and Chelsea Jade, was released on the same day.{{Cite web |last=Keenan |first=Hesher |date=January 27, 2025 |title=Deafheaven Detail New Album Lonely People With Power, New Track "Magnolia" is Savage |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2025/01/27/deafheaven-detail-new-album-lonely-people-with-power-new-track-magnolia-is-savage/ |access-date=January 28, 2025 |website=MetalSucks |language=en}}

On January 29, 2025, the band announced their 2025 North American tour, supported by Gatecreeper and Trauma Ray. The tour begins at The Belasco in Los Angeles on April 19 and concludes in Arizona in May, before moving to Europe for a string of music festival performances throughout the summer, including England's Outbreak Fest and Germany's Rock am Ring.{{Cite web |last=Corcoran |first=Nina |date=January 29, 2025 |title=Deafheaven Announce 2025 North American Tour |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/deafheaven-announce-2025-north-american-tour/ |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}} A second single, "Heathen", was released on February 25, 2025.{{Cite web |date=February 25, 2025 |title=DEAFHEAVEN Shares New Song 'Heathen' From Upcoming 'Lonely People With Power' Album |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/deafheaven-shares-new-song-heathen-from-upcoming-lonely-people-with-power-album |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=BLABBERMOUTH.NET |language=en}} Lonely People with Power was released by Roadrunner Records on March 28, 2025, alongside the short film Winona.{{Cite web |last=Kaufman |first=Spencer |date=March 28, 2025 |title=Deafheaven Release New Album Lonely People with Power, Unveil "Winona" Short Film: Stream |url=https://consequence.net/2025/03/deafheaven-new-album-lonely-people-with-power-stream/ |access-date=March 28, 2025 |website=Consequence |language=en}}

{{Music ratings

| ADM = 8.0/10{{Cite web|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/14258/Deafheaven-Lonely-People-With-Power-.aspx|title=Lonely People With Power by Deafheaven reviews|work=AnyDecentMusic?|access-date=4 April 2025}}

| MC = 85/100{{Cite web |title=Lonely People With Power by Deafheaven Reviews and Tracks |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/lonely-people-with-power/deafheaven |access-date=April 22, 2025 |website=Metacritic}}

| rev1 = Clash

| rev1score = 9/10{{Cite web |last=Watkins |first=Michael |date=March 27, 2025 |title=Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/deafheaven-lonely-people-with-power/ |access-date=March 28, 2025 |website=Clash}}

| rev2 = Kerrang!

| rev2score = 4/5{{Cite web |last=Ruskell |first=Nick |date=March 27, 2025 |title=Album review: Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power |url=https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-deafheaven-lonely-people-with-power |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=Kerrang!}}

| rev3 = The Line of Best Fit

| rev3score = 9/10{{Cite web |last=Hyde |first=Greg |date=March 26, 2025 |title=Deafheaven deliver their finest work on Lonely People With Power |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/deafheaven-lonely-people-with-power-deliver-their-finest-work |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=The Line of Best Fit}}

| rev4 = Metal Hammer

| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |last=Mills |first=Matt |date=March 28, 2025 |title=Deafheaven transcended black metal and the elitists hated them for it - now they've embraced it again with their heaviest album yet|url=https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/deafheaven-lonely-people-with-power-album-review |access-date=April 4, 2025 |website=Metal Hammer}}

| rev5 = NME

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |last=Goggins |first=Joe |date=March 26, 2025 |title=Deafheaven – 'Lonely People With Power' review: ferocity and maturity |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/deafheaven-lonely-people-with-power-review-3847405 |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=NME}}

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6score = 7.5/10{{Cite web |last=Jayasuriya |first=Mehan |date=March 28, 2025 |title=Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/deafheaven-lonely-people-with-power/ |access-date=March 28, 2025 |website=Pitchfork}}

| rev7 = PopMatters

| rev7score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/deafheaven-lonely-people-with-power|title=Deafheaven Are Loudly Beautiful On "Lonely People With Power"|last=Schmidt|first=Nate|date=April 1, 2025|access-date=April 9, 2025|work=PopMatters|language=en-US}}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |last=Ehrlich |first=Brenna |date=March 27, 2025 |title=Deafheaven's Ragingly Beautiful 'Lonely People With Power' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/deafheaven-lonely-people-with-power-review-1235304804/ |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=Rolling Stone}}

| rev9 = Sputnikmusic

| rev9score = 5.0/5{{cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/89654/Deafheaven-Lonely-People-with-Power |title=Review: Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=Sputnikmusic}}

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At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Lonely People With Power received an average score of 85 based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

In a 9/10 review, Greg Hyde of The Line of Best Fit dubbed it an "artistic triumph" and Deafheaven's finest album to date, praising the band as having honed their "musicianship and songwriting abilities" and writing that the album "blends the strongest elements of a 'metal' album like New Bermuda with the strongest elements of a 'shoegaze' album like Infinite Granite, and features the band playing both metal and shoegaze better than they did on either album". Brenna Ehrlich of Rolling Stone similary wrote that the band "mixes painterly lyrics, raw aggression, and earworm melodies on their best album yet". Kerrang!{{'}}s Nick Russell wrote, "Six albums in, Deafheaven have made both their heaviest and most balanced, rounded record, perhaps ever."

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Deafheaven

| total_length = 62:08

| title1 = Incidental I

| length1 = 0:56

| title2 = Doberman

| length2 = 6:34

| title3 = Magnolia

| length3 = 4:14

| title4 = The Garden Route

| length4 = 5:48

| title5 = Heathen

| length5 = 5:02

| title6 = Amethyst

| length6 = 8:14

| title7 = Incidental II

| note7 = featuring Jae Matthews

| length7 = 4:20

| title8 = Revelator

| length8 = 6:24

| title9 = Body Behavior

| length9 = 5:23

| title10 = Incidental III

| note10 = featuring Paul Banks

| length10 = 2:08

| title11 = Winona

| length11 = 7:28

| title12 = The Marvelous Orange Tree

| length12 = 5:37

}}

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Lonely People with Power,{{cite AV media notes |title=Lonely People with Power |others=Deafheaven |publisher=Roadrunner Records |year=2025 |type=liner notes |id=075678601361}} except where noted

Deafheaven

• George Clarke – vocals{{Cite news |last=Hunter-Tilney |first=Ludovic |date=March 29, 2025 |title=Deafheaven bring back the heaviness on Lonely People with Power — album review |url=https://www.ft.com/content/7fcb1fa6-54e9-4f28-9c0b-f814c0242cb8 |access-date=March 30, 2025 |work=Financial Times}}
• Kerry McCoy – guitar
• Shiv Mehra – guitar
• Chris Johnson – bass
• Daniel Tracy – drums

Additional personnel

• Justin Meldal-Johnsen – production (at Chez JMJ), engineering (at EastWest), additional synthesizers (at Chez JMJ), sound design (at Chez JMJ)
• Darrell Thorp – engineering (at EastWest)
• Mike Schuppan – engineering (at EastWest)
• Chaz Sexton – assistant engineering (at EastWest)
• Zach Weeks – mixing and mastering (at God City Studio)
• Jae Matthews – vocals (on "Incidental II")
• Paul Banks – spoken word (on "Incidental III")
• Winona Choir – vocals (track 11)
• Chelsea Jade Metcalf
• Trayer de la Torre
• Georgia Nott
• Spencer Zahn
• Katrina Urton
• James Kelly
• Carly Bond
• Lukas Frank
• Emily Fehler
• Leon Mosburg
• Nick Steinhardt – creative direction (for 23in)
• Foie Graphics – additional design

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