LISTEN: Deep Blue Something Shares ‘Don’t Stop’

New album, Lunar Phase, out May 23

February 27, 2025February 27, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments Deep Blue Something, Denton, Don't Stop, Flatiron, Lunar Phase, Material Issue, Sugar, Texas, The Stone Roses, Todd Pipes

Deep Blue Something (Image: Flatiron Recordings)

It was 30 years ago when Deep Blue Something from Denton, Texas, hit the Billboard charts with their alt-pop smash “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

Three decades later, the group’s lineup — made up of Todd Pipes (vocals and bass), his brother Toby Pipes (vocals and lead guitar), Kirk Tatom (guitar and backing vocals), Clay Bergus (guitar and backing vocals) and John Kirtland (drums) — are back with Lunar Phase. It’s the first new DBS LP since their eponymous 2001 fourth album, and first set of fresh tunes since they reunited in 2014 and released the Locust House EP in 2020.

“Don’t Stop” single art (Image: Flatiron Recordings)

Recorded, performed, and produced by the band at Phantom Power Studio in Colleyville, Texas, Lunar Phase finds the DBS evoking the sounds that surrounded them when the band was first starting out in that 1991-1992 era.

“This was the time of Material Issue, Teenage Fanclub, The Charlatans and Sugar” says Todd Pipes. “When music seemed to be going everywhere at once — when everyone was waiting to see if The Stone Roses would ever make another record. . . before grunge took over.”

But while Lunar Phase doesn’t come out until May 23rd on the Flatiron Recordings imprint, Rock & Roll Globe is honored to offer an early taste of the album in the form of its new single, the bouncy, Britpop-leaning “Don’t Stop.”

“Without being too specific, because I don’t want to give away who it’s about, I wrote this song to tell the story of a young girl determined to take on the world,” Todd Pipes tells us. “The problem comes (as it does when we become adults) when the real world seems overwhelming, concrete and devoid of magic — not at all as we know it to be as children. The lyrics urge her to stay true to herself, to simply keep moving, and most importantly to allow the magic of the dream world to remain.”

Listen to “Don’t Stop” below, and pre-order Lunar Phase here.