Dead People are two young brothers and their mother. They sing about ruined relationships, lonely nights and a civilization on the edge of the abyss. They're inspired by 80's synth-pop, 90's techno, Californian sunsets, Italian graveyards and the photography of Diane Arbus.
In medieval times the phrase "memento mori" ("remember death") was popular in art. Paintings showed how love, money, happiness and all the other things we strive for in life are nothing but shallow vanities that death will take away from us in the end. 650 years after the Black Death inspired artists to paint dancing skeletons in European churches, a new virus is ravaging the world. Perhaps we don't need more reminders of our own mortality now, but Dead People’s melancholic elegant electronic pop is a perfect soundtrack to these times. "Safety Lines" is about a broken, vengeful heart and deals with the brevity of life. The painful realization that there's no holy grail, nor app filter, to save us from decay.