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2025 was a time of hard truths and personal reckoning for DD Allen. After four years of post-pandemic struggle and COVID-related illness, he found himself operating in a weathered world that felt increasingly distant from the one he’d entered as an artist.
His independently released debut EP, Rebel Hero, had slipped quietly past the mainstream. The band he once leaned on split. And the drink that took hold during the pandemic continued to dull the spark that ignited his spotlight moment opening for James Blunt ten years earlier.
Exhausted and burnt out from managing expectations, Allen found himself standing at a crossroads with no sense of direction. He needed a reset.
It came in the spring, during long listening sessions, revisiting everything he’d ever written. As he sifted through stories of love, loss and stolen moments—of fakers, takers and people willing to do whatever it takes—he found something that felt like a lifeline. Those songs, and the soul sitting quietly inside them, became the catalyst for a transformation. He went sober, regained his focus, and the clarity hit like oxygen.
By summer, Allen was reborn into a feverish new creative rhythm. Every night, he jammed until dawn, capturing fresh lines and melodies in what would become known as the Red Room Sessions. This raw yet vital body of work built on sharp new observations and a realism he’d previously been too tired to reach for.
Reuniting with long-time ally, music producer Mark Tucker, in the fall, Allen carried the momentum back into the Devonshire studio, where he felt most at home.
Often working from early morning through to the late hours, what emerged across several sessions is intensely textured new music, shaped by themes of healed-over heartbreak, wild optimism and connections too deep to walk away from.
Set for release in 2026 as a second EP, the aptly titled lead single New Sunrise oozes Petty-esque guitars, driving rhythms and hints of alternative country as Allen sees the end of a relationship from a new point of view—when you’ve healed and have hope. “Got pockets of dust but I got dreams, I’m gonna give you everything …”.

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