Like Hell! by Still Depths

Still Depths return with Like Hell!, their most unpredictable, unruly, and joyfully abrasive release to date.

Written and recorded over six months in a makeshift basement studio in Burnaby, BC, Like Hell! is a technicolor tantrum of sound—part dance record, part noise collage, part existential clown show.

This is not an album built to a blueprint. Instead, Like Hell! emerged from pure impulse. Much of the writing process was tied directly to recording: drum loops were born from scratch, studio experiments were followed through with no safety net, and lo-fi gear was thrown into action while ideas were still fresh. The band treated the studio itself as an instrument, embracing rough edges, blown-out textures, and spontaneous performances over polish or perfection.

“We weren’t trying to make something clean,” say Brendan and Justin, the duo behind Still Depths’ songwriting. “We like music that feels like it’s alive. Sometimes we didn’t bother to tune our instruments or properly mic anything up, we just hit record and focused on ignoring fussiness.”

The result is an album where aggression and humor coexist in jagged harmony. Tracks like “Boy Fight” and “Smoking Dope in Hell” sit somewhere between basement rave and bar fight, blending harsh electronics with flashes of tenderness and absurdity. Some lyrics walk a tightrope between satire and confession, and song structures that feel like they were discovered rather than written—carved out through layers of improvisation, then reassembled with an editor’s scalpel.

On “Basshead,” they sample and mutate elements from their previous LP, folding and stretching those sounds into something unrecognizable. Other tracks began as raw live ideas, later chopped and collaged into fully realized recordings. Throughout, the band pulls influence from hip hop, industrial noise, outsider pop, and the surreal beauty/ugliness of life in Vancouver, where glass towers and nature collide with shadows and grit.
Like Hell! is Still Depths’ dance album. Their jester album. Their trashy, joyous, anti-perfectionist album. It’s a celebration of chaos, discomfort, and the weird magic that happens when you stop overthinking and just hit record.

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