Deerhoof - The Runners Four

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"running thoughts" is my immediate favorite track so far... simply cause that sound doesn't remind me of anything else they've done.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

good video... that song + video screams... "WHO SELLS OUT!" am i imagining that?
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

well, i see it's already been said a few times, but i picked this up yesterday (along with the new animal collective) and it's pretty much the best thing ever.. (Feels isnt' too shabby, either.)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 20 October 2005 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

This album is awesome, but I really can't fucking take her voice anymore. I love that weird, sort of incongruous afro-pop sounding track. It came in right when I was starting to get bored.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 3 November 2005 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean someone needs to develop a patch that edits out her voice.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 3 November 2005 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link

what i've heard of this record (probably half of it) i find uninspiring and their 'eccentricities' seem to be getting a bit predictable and irritating.

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 3 November 2005 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link

But the music is so awesome and I hardly think it's overly "eccentric" outisde of the singing (I actually think the rhythm section sounds kind of like The Who)

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 3 November 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you actually think it kind of does?
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=deerhoof+keith+moon

― eek, Thursday, 3 November 2005 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link

(But also y'know The Who's rhythm section was pretty eccentric)

― eek, Thursday, 3 November 2005 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Pitchfork in WTF shocka:

Deerhoof release their first straight-up guitar-rock album-- short, dense songs packed into familiar forms, full-bodied vocals for unabashed, often gut-punching melodies, less herk-jerk, less of that house-of-cards spirit that coursed through Reveille and Apple O. Almost twice the length of their other LPs, The Runners Four plays not as one big song, but as three swoops of six or seven, and the result is by turns jubilant, confused, afraid, angry, sad, relieved, and all pretty poignant

Wha? How is this album any more guitar-rock or less "herk-jerk" than Reveille? Nick, care to explain?

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

shit is sounding good right now

― El GarBage (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 19 February 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link

four years pass...

I would like Greg Saunier and Brian Chippendale to release a Max Roach-Buddy Rich-style "dueling drums" record.

― Dr. Gene Scott (shiny beast), Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:37 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so this finally happened! has anybody else heard their record on Famous Class?

― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Monday, 26 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link

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