Defects ^UK

In a fast-moving world, where there’s often a sensory overload, it’s easy and natural to observe things on a surface level. We watch, we listen, we indulge, and we move on. It’s only when you take a moment to stop, take a breath and really focus that you can really see. Often, those moments are forced upon us by our emotional fragility; perhaps that’s when we’re at our most open.

Modern Error is the debut album from Defects. It’s profoundly personal and breathtakingly raw with emotion. Conceptually, it is a deeply cathartic album that acts as a vessel for singer Tony Maue to organise his thoughts and views on the world. Indeed, the title itself acts as a thread, tying together the various anxieties life in the modern world can bring up.

The band began to germinate in 2019 with singer Tony Maue, along with guitarists Luke Genders and James Threadwell, and was completed by bassist David Silver and drummer Harry Jennings. Threaded through the album is the mental trauma that Maue has been through, how the five members of the band are all connected and why, at this moment, right now, is the right time for this band to exist. For themselves as much as anyone else.

They wear their hearts on their sleeves. “I use songwriting as a tool to vent rather than be poetic,” explains Maue. “It’s good to talk about things that haven’t been discussed enough. It’s about things that matter, that are personal and real, and can resonate with people.”