Brooklyn's Dead Leaf Echo is a music/art collective that released their debut LP Thought and Language in 2013. That premier album was strongly influenced by many 4AD acts, brought into sharp focus by the mixing of John Fryer (Lush, NIN, Depeche Mode) and featuring artwork by 4ADs legendary designer, V23's Vaughan Oliver (Pixies, Bauhaus), which further enhanced their strong aesthetic connections to that label. The band maintains a distinctive ethos -- embracing their idols while still forging their own sound.

The new EP Milk.Blue.Kisses.and Whalebone.Wishes will be released on January 21, 2022 by Moon Sound Records. It will be released both digitally and on vinyl. This work features new artwork from V23's Timothy O'Donnell (The Birthday Party, Pale Saints), Roy Burns III (Stiff Little Fingers, Sun Kil Moon), and Gary Prendergast (cutshapemake).

Back in 2019, the band had just wrapped a tour of the West Coast featuring a performance at KEXP's "John in the Morning" and flew back to NYC to begin recording their 3rd LP The Mercy of Women the band began preparations to release the record and tour Europe in the fall of 2020. D.L.E.’s frontman LG Galleon was on tour in March of 2020 with his band Clone when the pandemic hit. He retreated to his friends The Stargazer Lilies compound in the Poconos where all the songs for Milk.Blue.Kisses.and Whalebone.Wishes began to formulate. Back in NYC, the band finished recording the rest of the EP while in lockdown from both home and their practice studio. James Aparacio (Spritualized, Depeche Mode) mixed the title track, while LG finished production on the remaining 5 tracks. Charles Nieland (Blondie, Franz Ferdinand) was brought in to master.

Milk.Blue.Kisses.and Whalebone.Wishes is about the themes that involve anxiety and sex and never selling your worth for less than its true value. The album is ambient and relaxed (and with a certain new tributary focus on Harold Budd). Each song title is a play on words of the overall title, with themes of winter and ice and the female form represented.

Both their live performances and album, replete with gorgeous packaging and artwork, are crucial entry points to understanding the band.