Teenage Sequence Size Up the U.K. Music Industry on Debut Single “All This Art”

Dewan-Dean Soomary addresses racism and personal neurosis on the walloping new track for Get Better Records.
Teenage Sequence Size Up the U.K. Music Industry on Debut Single “All This Art”

Dewan-Dean Soomary addresses racism and personal neurosis on the walloping new track for Get Better Records.

Words: Mike LeSuer

photo by Captured by Corinne

June 01, 2021

It took us, like, 40 years to come to terms with the realization that “disco sucks” is a racist mantra, so it feels like in recent years we’ve been making up for lost time. The debut single from Teenage Sequence, though, makes LCD Soundsystem and DFA at large feel like a soft open, with Dewan-Dean Soomary elevating James Murphy’s stream-of-consciousness lyrics above irony, his blipping electronic beats beyond their simplistic charm, on the walloping six-and-a-half minute debut single “All This Art.” Finding a home on Get Better Records, you can imagine its dancefloor-friendliness is but one facet of the admittedly very dancefloor-friendly track.

“‘All This Art’ is as much about the systemic racism of the U.K. music industry as it is my own neurosis,” shares the London-born artist of South Asian heritage, “as serious about these subjects as it [is an attempt at being] humorous—in a sort of ‘if you don’t laugh, you’d stare blankly into the void wondering what’s the point’ way. I never intended for the first Teenage Sequence single to be six minutes and 23 seconds of the same beat (pop career suicide), but here we are!”

Hear the tune below.