New Single – ‘NEW SERMON’ – Deerest
Deerest, the project of VT/Brooklyn musician Dharma Ramirez, recently released a brand new self-produced track ‘NEW SERMON’. Built around a collection of samples, thumping beats and a crunching guitar riff, the song is a meditation on feminine rage and the cognitive dissonance that exists between morality and craving adoration/ a sense of belonging especially in romantic relationships. Deerest’s vocals alternate between velvety and sensual to distorted and edgy to convey this internal conflict with the track ending with the refrain “Tried to warn you that we’ve been like this before, puzzle pieces without their board”.
I wrote and recorded it myself in my room at my mom’s house in New Hampshire where I’ve been staying/recovering from a significant loss that occurred during my time living in Brooklyn, NYC.
Deerest
Deerest is the solo project of Brattleboro, Vermont-born artist Dharma Ramirez, an alt-pop musician blending art pop, trip hop, and darkwave into a sound that feels both intimate and otherworldly. Influenced by Björk, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, and Imogen Heap, her work balances fragility with intensity through layered, atmospheric production.
Ramirez began performing at 14 with her first band, The Snaz, before continuing through projects including the feminist punk band OSABA and Brooklyn-based shoegaze group OMAT, performing across New York City and opening for L7 at Irving Plaza.
After a period of personal loss, she returned to Vermont and turned inward, giving rise to Deerest—a fully self-produced project marking a new level of creative autonomy.
Her 2024 debut EP AFEAR is the first work she has entirely written, produced, mixed, and performed herself. Rooted in themes of transformation, grief, and self-reclamation, Deerest’s music is raw, immersive, and unflinchingly personal.
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