DeepFaith Unleash Baroque-Club Fever Dream With New Single “Y&I”

Fresh off a career-defining moment at Berlin Art Week’s CHURCH club night, where they performed alongside avant-pop icons Peaches and Casey Spooner, plus an unforgettable surprise cameo from Lisa Rinna, DeepFaith returns with their boldest statement yet, the electrifying new single “Y&I.”  A baroque-meets-club fever dream, the track dives into the tension between devotion and desire, blending theatrical emotion with boundary-breaking production that feels both sacred and sinful.

Keep reading for our exclusive interview with DeepFaith, where we unpack the vision, chaos, and creative rebellion behind “Y&I.”

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“Y&I” blends opera, rave, and raw emotion into one track. How did you land on this unique sonic identity?

I feel it was a natural evolution for us tbh. We experimented for a while, just having fun, and it’s all the stuff we like! Musicals, going to raves, trance music, etc  - it’s loosely our universe together. I think the thing we both like is euphoric sadness, like a good Moby track or something. 

Berlin Art Week’s CHURCH night looked electric. What role does live performance play in shaping DeepFaith’s music?

It’s timely, really. We love playing live, and it feels like people are craving that more in the world. We started going deep into the project around Covid, experimenting and improvising, learning and sponging off YouTube and crazy tech alongside weird improvised shows we used to do with motion capture and avatars. It was really the nucleus of everything for us. It’s informed everything - it was also a really pivotal time for the world yearning and appreciating live music again. We’re very passionate about that need and love for a live connection of energies in a room. We are so inspired and connected to technology, we love so much the meetings of those worlds in reality as the ultimate moment of energy. 

Byron, your visual world is maximalist and surreal. How do your visuals and installations feed into the music of DeepFaith?

I think it's just a natural progression. My background was music theatre, and it was always where I wanted to head back into (in the sense of music in general), and I think Danial has had this background of music and naturally heading more into the evolution of further sensory experiences. So it’s definitely a shared visual experience. That being said, I think my work is really one giant collage, so in that sense, and in the sense that the project is realizing itself into being a rather personal diary of my emotions, it is naturally feeding into being a maximal journalistic collage. 

You collaborated with some heavy-hitters on this track, from John Carroll Kirby to Isabella Manfredi. How do you decide who to bring into the DeepFaith universe?

I think it's a combo of general admiration and love for people's work and a want for the collaboration, and then also a hope that we can build a rather odd community of artists together into a project that they may not have worked on before. In the sense of keeping our work non-bound to any genre…..

You describe DeepFaith as “pop-op-erratic.” What does that mean to you, and how do you want listeners to feel when they hear “Y&I”?

We personally like to cry on the dance floor. Happy sad. Pop op erratic means everything to us. It's really up to you what you take from it. We can’t answer that question.