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Dead Dads Club offer up raw new album preview ‘Volatile Child’

The debut LP from Chilli Jesson’s new project will land in January.

Chilli Jesson's Dead Dads Club offer up new single 'Volatile Child'

Having recently made his musical return under a new moniker, Dead Dads Club, Chilli Jesson (formerly of Palma Violets and Crewel Intentions) has now dropped another new single entitled ‘Volatile Child’. 

The third track to be lifted from Dead Dads Club’s forthcoming self-titled debut album (due out on 23rd January 2026), this latest cut follows recent releases ‘Goosebumps’ and ‘Don’t Blame The Son For The Sins Of The Father’, and sees Chilli dive further into the emotional journey he was forced to undertake following the death of his father. 

“The song follows a young man standing at the edge of his breaking point in a small YMCA room in Paris,” Chilli has explained. “Lost in the noise of grief and isolation, he’s pulled back from the brink when he sees a vivid, grounding vision of his late father.”

Listen to ‘Volatile Child’ for yourself below. 

Catch Dead Dads Club live in the new year on their January 2026 UK instore tour:

JANUARY 2026
23 Banquet, Kingston 
24 Rough Trade East, London
25 Sound Knowledge, Marlborough
26 The Croft for Rough Trade, Bristol (out-store)
27 Rough Trade, Nottingham
28 Jacaranda, Liverpool
29 Vinyl Whistle, Leeds 

‘Dead Dads Club’ tracklist: 
1. It’s Only Just Begun
2. Volatile Child
3. Humming Wires
4. Goosebumps
5. Junkyard Radiator
6. Running Out Of Gas
7. That’s Life
8. Don’t Blame The Son For The Sins Of The Father
9. Need This Around
10. Hospital Pillow
11. Need You So Bad

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