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For better or worse, Chicago trio Dehd sound ready for the big time. Blue Skies is a step forward and sideways for the formerly DIY group

hide caption DEHD Alexa Viscius/Courtesy of the artist Set List "Loner" (Recorded live for World Cafe) "Month" (Recorded live for World Cafe) "Flying" (Recorded live for World Cafe) Have you ever been crying really hard as someone tries to comfort you? Theyll be patting your back and saying something like "Its OK, its OK, just get it out of your system"? Thats what Emily Kempf, singer of Chicago trio Dehd can sound like when she sings. Like shes getting some real, raw, pure emotion ...

It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year we’d rather forget—an endless feedback loop of disappointment and disaster. It’s further obvious that few have had a more difficult path navigating this mess than the countless number of musicians whose financial and creative livelihoods have been put on an indefinite halt, given their increasing reliance on entertaining large (and preferably jam-packed) gatherings of people. Yet that isn’t to say these folks have merely gone dormant over...