About A Better Fight
Available NOW: Limited Edition Compact Disc (CD), Digital Album (Streaming + High-Quality Download) via the free Bandcamp app for iOS /Android devices. A Better Fight CD also available direct from the band.
Available 11-15-26 direct from Deception Bay: Limited Edition 12" Vinyl LP. Order through our contact form! Available NOW: Signed copies of This Book Of Ours, a beautiful 36-page lyric magazine that helps imagine "a space between shadow and reflection." Many of these images illustrate songs on "A Better Fight." Preview and purchase from the publisher below, or order signed copies via our contact form below.
SPECIAL: The first ten books sold receive a high-quality digital download of the album!
Available NOW: Limited Edition Compact Disc (CD), Digital Album (Streaming + High-Quality Download) via the free Bandcamp app for iOS /Android devices. A Better Fight CD also available direct from the band.
Available 11-15-26 direct from Deception Bay: Limited Edition 12" Vinyl LP. Order through our contact form! Available NOW: Signed copies of This Book Of Ours, a beautiful 36-page lyric magazine that helps imagine "a space between shadow and reflection." Many of these images illustrate songs on "A Better Fight." Preview and purchase from the publisher below, or order signed copies via our contact form below.
SPECIAL: The first ten books sold receive a high-quality digital download of the album!
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We welcome inquiries at any time. Here's the place to just call, send an email, and learn about A Better Fight, our new CD & LP for sale. We'll be live on streaming platforms Sept. 25, 2026. Check out This Book of Ours, our new lyric magazine. To get signed copies from us, drop us a note in this form, and thanks so much for your support. For digital payments, use the purple button.
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Pictured in 1985, from left, bassist Carl Boland, guitarist and filmmaker Jay Dunn, and drummer Michael Evans in the dressing room of the Rathskellar, arguably Boston's best-sounding club. Photograph by Paul Fay.
Deception Bay - My Color Flag, 1991 - IP035
Independent Project Records, Los Angeles, CA
Format: Vinyl, LP, 12", Numbered
Country: US
Released: 1991
Deception Bay - Fortune Days, 1991 - IP034
Independent Project Records, Los Angeles, CA
Format: Vinyl, LP, 10", Numbered
Country: US
Released: 1991
Deception Bay – Deception Bay, 1988 - IP022
Independent Project Records, Los Angeles, CA
Format: Vinyl, LP, 12", Mini-Album, Limited Edition
Country: US
Released: 1988
"They wander through a sea of effected guitar feedback that builds a huge, overpowering wall of noise, that's pumped up and down with life-giving ease by a repetitive bass and drum pattern. A singer sings, or talks. Just 20 years ago, you could have been forgiven for listening to this in the dark, for getting high on it. Deception Bay are real heads.
Dig’em… The most." * * * * *
- Dave Henderson, in Offbeat UK, about
Live on Metrowave, Deception Bay's 1985
debut album that claimed a place
in the avant-garde of the day.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
About
Deception Bay
Lots of water has passed under the bridge since 1985, when Jay Dunn and Carl Boland, as Deception Bay, sent their first mix tape to WZBC-FM, Boston College's pioneering underground station. At Fisk Place, in Cambridge, MA, WZBC's "No Commercial Potential " radio program was in the background every night, subverting everybody's idea of what music should be with experiments in ambience, full-on scratching and wailing, the exquisite inventions of Zoviet France, Cocteau Twins, Skinny Puppy, and Joy Division. At Fisk, Deception Bay's first sounds were made with whatever was available - loaner guitars, drums found in an alley and played by hand, Radio Shack mics, and a borrowed Fostex cassette 4-track.
"Live on Metrowave" was only the group's third time playing with drummer Michael Evans, but it was meant to be, cementing Deception Bay as a force to be reckoned with. Behind the glass at WERS-FM during the broadcast was producer Carl Plaster, keeping everything under control as digital maestro Douglas Vargas sent Jay Dunn's guitar feedback into the stratosphere. With the band for the finale was singer Louise Milne, whose uncanny ability to find the right notes anchored the performance of "For The Season" to reality.
Deception Bay is indebted to the many people who helped them in their journey, especially Bruce Licher of LA's Independent Project Records.
Of special note are the supremely talented drummers the group was able to attract. In Los Angeles, rocker Rich D'Albis of October Days powered the band to new levels for California fans. With a tape and just one practice, drummer Jim Arhelger stepped up to deliver a show-stopping performance in 1987 at the group's critical "Boston Now" Institute of Contemporary Art exhibition. Terry Donahue is well-known as a gifted multi-instrumentalist who performed with the group often. Donahue is the relentless drummer driving Deception Bay's landmark 1991 album "My Color Flag." Engineered at Fort Apache by Lou Giordano and Douglas Vargas, the record remains "a spiral of dark dance rhythms." With these 2026 videos, guitarist and filmmaker Jay Dunn and bassist Carl Boland have returned full circle to their minimalist musical roots - quiet, undeniably powerful, and fired by a lifetime of perspective.
Of special note are the supremely talented drummers the group was able to attract. In Los Angeles, rocker Rich D'Albis of October Days powered the band to new levels for California fans. With a tape and just one practice, drummer Jim Arhelger stepped up to deliver a show-stopping performance in 1987 at the group's critical "Boston Now" Institute of Contemporary Art exhibition. Terry Donahue is well-known as a gifted multi-instrumentalist who performed with the group often. Donahue is the relentless drummer driving Deception Bay's landmark 1991 album "My Color Flag." Engineered at Fort Apache by Lou Giordano and Douglas Vargas, the record remains "a spiral of dark dance rhythms." With these 2026 videos, guitarist and filmmaker Jay Dunn and bassist Carl Boland have returned full circle to their minimalist musical roots - quiet, undeniably powerful, and fired by a lifetime of perspective.
We welcome inquiries at any time. Here's the place to just call, send a text or email, and learn about A Better Fight, our new CD & LP for sale. We'll be live on streaming platforms Sept. 25, 2026. Check out This Book of Ours, our new lyric magazine. To get signed copies from us, drop us a note in this form, and thanks so much for your support. For digital payments, use the purple button.