Deer Tick's Dennis Ryan

February 24, 2026

Deer Tick wearing Audeze LCD-X headphones

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Deer Tick

Emotional Contracts, the latest full-length album from Deer Tick, catalogs all the existential casualties that accompany the passing of time, instilling each song with the irresistibly reckless spirit that’s defined the band for nearly two decades. The Providence-bred four-piece spent months working on demos in a perpetually flooded warehouse space, enduring the busted heating system and massive holes in the roof as they carved out the album’s 10 raggedly eloquent tracks. Emotional Contracts fully echoes the unruly energy of its creation, ultimately making for a heavy-hearted yet wildly life-affirming portrait of growing older without losing heart.
 

About the Headphones

 
"The LCD-X headphones have added a level of trust and consistency moving between different studio environments and even while on the road. I tracked the new Deer Tick record being able to rely on them to capture sounds. I also tracked and mixed an album for Jacob Smigel and was able to work on the mixes while traveling!”
- Dennis Ryan of Deer Tick
Headphones resting on a sound mixing console in a recording studio.
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