🎧 Approved: Déyyess

Déyyess, the phonetic spelling of goddess in French, makes what she calls “sparkley grunge”, a sound that blends sapphic tenderness with 90s-indebted shoegaze shimmer.

She grew up in Canterbury, where her first obsession wasn’t music but football; she was even scouted to play for Arsenal Girls. But everything shifted aged twelve, when she fell into Lady Gaga’s universe, not just the songs, but the unapologetic queer allyship. That was the moment Déyyess chose to trade the pitch for the stage.

Her new single ‘She Knows’ is all quiet radiance and anxious crush energy. It’s about “a casual interaction with a stranger you really fancy”, Déyyess explains. “You don’t know much about them or if they’re even into girls. You’re trying so hard not to act silly or give yourself away, but then you realise you’ve made it obvious. And now, fuck… she knows”. 

The track channels the crystalline melancholy of The Sundays, the gauzy atmospherics of Cocteau Twins and the earnestness of The Cranberries, while nodding to contemporary queer icons like Chappell Roan and Clairo. 

🎧 Listen to ‘She Knows’ below