why does billy tape all of his interactions? is the larger question here
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 December 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
To keep bullshit like this from sullying his reputation.
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 December 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
That's why I always have a GoPro strapped to my head.
― Evan, Monday, 7 December 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
i'd want to act up if there was all that surveillance
still i call bullshit on BC. i'm not a smashing pumpkins fan or anything but the one time i saw them, a loooong time ago, SHUDDER to THINK opened up when they were in full glam prog mode. the audience were booing the fuck out of them and started throwing shit. it got bad enough billy ended up walking out, picking up a shoe someone had chucked at the stage, sniffing it, and saying into the mic, "you boo these guys, you boo us -- and we don't play when people boo us," then walking back off stage. hard for me to picture that guy pulling a total 360 and turning into an asshole as huge as BC describes
in other news, show was flat out awesome in philly last night. twenty minutes of "nothing ever happened" sounded like prime CAN or NEU!
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 7 December 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
I think we can all agree that BC comes off as the asshole here, while BC, on the other hand, is looking good.
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 December 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
heh
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 7 December 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
What have the atlas sound portions of this tour been like? New stuff? Old stuff? New takes on old stuff?
― tomorrow, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
I'm curious about that as well
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:14 (eight years ago) link
New stuff? Old stuff? New takes on old stuff?
all of the above. was just him with what seemed to be a portable version of his studio setup. did some abstract things, taped voice interludes, different sounding version of 'sheila', some older stuff, newer stuff that i didn't recognize.
nothing ever happens is turning into their sister ray, went on for at least 20-30 min. his mid-set stage rant was about his love for the 9:30 club which was sweet
― am0n, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
I was in the car for a few hours today and listened to the not-particularly-new one. Liked a couple of songs, didn't like a couple towards the end, neutral on most of it. The one song I love is "Ad Astra."
― clemenza, Monday, 28 December 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
i thought the vaguely english-beat-sounding version (complete with near-constant sax) of "living my life" they did on tv recently was a lot better than the version recorded for the album.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 7 May 2016 10:39 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7PAacr7LJc
cool version!
maybe on paper lyrics seem a bit grim, but the way it's sung inspires a lot of confidence imo
― niels, Saturday, 7 May 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
bradford cox's hat also deserve a lot of props.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
They're playing a greatest hits sort of setlist on their current tour. Last night's First Ave show was so good they could immediately release it as a live album.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 21 October 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Sounds good to this casual fan of theirs
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 October 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
today i wondered "what's up with deerhunter?", so i googled "deerhunter live"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2EuD9C8VbA
i guess it's not nice to judge based on a show that seemed plagued with poor sound, but they kind of look lost out there, and at some point half the band got replaced (or left)?
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 June 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
only lineup changes they've had lately are adding a keyboard player + percussionist, they changed bass players a few album ago but thats it
― ufo, Saturday, 16 June 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
I saw a similar show a few years back, sound was very noisy, hard to make out which songs they were playing, pretty disappointing
Halcyon Digest and Fading Frontier are all time for me
― niels, Sunday, 17 June 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
i wish we could get a new Lotus Plaza album
― alpine static, Sunday, 17 June 2018 09:02 (five years ago) link
Weird to see the bass missing an A string, I wonder why?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 17 June 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
oops now I see!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 17 June 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link
― alpine static, Sunday, June 17, 2018 4:02 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Seconded (though I would also be up for a decent Atlas Sound LP, the last one didn't do it for me)
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
By the way, the Moon Diagrams (by drummer Moses) stuff has been great too, don't sleep on that.
https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/music
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
will check out Moon Diagrams and revisit my Atlas Sound stuff, but truth is i liked the last Lotus Plaza album more than *any* Deerhunter or Deerhunter-related release thus far
― alpine static, Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2TgCuMcjM&feature=youtu.be
new (very good, imo) single, album titled Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared out January 18th
also, there's this wild thing on their website labeled "A Note From Bradford" that i'm really into—total Timecube vibes https://deerhuntermusic.com/anotefrombradford/
― austinb, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
huh, not sure what happened with the video, hope this link works
― austinb, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
So great, that old Deerhunter magic. The Double Dream of Spring tape, which I just recently managed to hear, also has lots of harpsichord.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
fuck yeah harpsichord
― J. Sam, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Awful news:
Farewell to Josh Fauver, who made our world better with his music. This long live performance of “Nothing Ever Happened” stands out https://t.co/xHQMegsS8y— Lance Bangs (@lancebangs) November 4, 2018
― Position Position, Sunday, 4 November 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
damn, RIP. i briefly met him at a party after a show at the empty bottle back during their cryptograms era, and he was so friendly and down to earth. :(
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 4 November 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
RIP
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 4 November 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
also, holy heck at the performance link Bangs shared
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 4 November 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
He was hypnotic the one time I saw him play.
All the posts linked here are sweet/heartbreaking.
― geoffreyess, Monday, 5 November 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
:((
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 5 November 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
Holy shit I really love this band
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
that new single is v good
they (cox) have a bunch of spotify playlists published too, like this one https://open.spotify.com/user/deerhunter_official/playlist/3FiBxPoOphlVNme450gY3V?si=282NlapkQ2eKJJihd5ZiAQ
― niels, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
what a fuckin weirdo
https://www.stereogum.com/2027586/deerhunter-2019-interview/franchises/interview/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
But in a good way
I was very influenced by contemporary harpsichord music — a lot of Spanish composers, Genoveva Gálvez. A lot of people hear the harpsichord and think about baroque pop, and I strongly put my hand up at that. “No, no, no, no.” I enjoy the actual acoustics and temper of that instrument — the velocity, the rhythmic pushback. It’s not a liquid instrument, it’s very hard. It’s not a psychedelic instrument, and I hate psychedelic music. People always used to call Cryptograms psychedelic, and I would go, “No — it’s concrète.” It’s not pink and warm and fuzzy. It’s bloodstained and visceral.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 January 2019 06:01 (five years ago) link
i enjoy reading his ramblings, but cryptograms is not concrète, unless i'm either hearing it completely wrong or i misunderstand the genre
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 06:05 (five years ago) link
this is an enjoyable read, imo:
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/9k4pjv/rank-your-records-deerhunter-bradford-cox
BC talking about Lockett's songwriting just made me want a new Lotus Plaza album (as I have said before itt) even more
― alpine static, Friday, 11 January 2019 08:36 (five years ago) link
http://deerhunterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/why-hasnt-everything-already-disappeared
Looks like the whole thing is available to hear already... Seems slightly fishy tho, idk.
― The thing from the popular "That Thing" song (bernard snowy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
dang, it's gone now!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
it leaked a while ago so i'm guessing someone uploaded the leak to bandcamp as 'deerhunterofficial' to try and scam some money out of people
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
ah, makes sense.
btw that noisey.vice link above is a pretty entertaining read, with the usual dose of bonkers statements from bradford. putting monomania at the top is challopsy enough, but then "Monomania is the greatest album I’ve ever made and anybody that doesn’t like it has no idea what I’m about or what I’m doing. They’re simply avid fans of what’s called indie rock and think we’re a notable indie rock band."
lol, ok
was surprised that weird era didn't make his top 5, either.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
monomania is my fave of his albums tbh
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
He also sez Stereolab's "Blue Milk" is the greatest song of all time. I like it, yeah. Greatest? I dunno.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
He says Desire Lines is his favourite Deerhunter song, which is magnificently otm - it's the only thing they've done that's completely blown me away and transcended what I thought the band capable of
― imago, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
This album is really, really good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
I’ve listened to this three times now. I like it but it’s just sort of an average Deerhunter album. Nothing surprising nor extraordinarily compelling. Solid, I guess.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link