Deerhoof - The Runners Four

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Brainwasher,
You ain't heard nothing yet!
I know it doesn't sound right, but listen to it now. And make sure to speak about it in reverence to all of your friends, neighbours, family...anyone who's ear you have. Tell them to listen to Deerhoof.
I do not think I've ever been as excited and brought to such an intense level of connection and refreshment.
It all comes together on this one. I am grateful that The Runners Four have stealed through customs and into my life!

― marybeth, Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:23 (eighteen years ago) link

predictibly i love this now, tracks 3-10 especially.
now v. excited about hearing these songs live!

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

AND I cannot emphasize enough how much that this album has to be listened to in it's entirety. It is not just a collection of songs but a story as exciting as I am sure Homer's Odyssey was in his time. An amazing work which works on oh so many levels. I will continue to enjoy this with the same sort of intensity for years to come.

Deerhoof...visionaires!

― Marybeth, Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Deerhoof is the best. Thanks for recommending it. I love it. Can't get enough. The best thing they've ever done for sure.

― Gerardmonchichi, Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I love Deerhoof!

― momusfriend, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

who else sings in this band besides the bassist?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

greg the drummer. one of the guitarists sings on "scream team" as well.
anyone know the uk tour dates yet?

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

let's keep talking about this great album

― j. rosenberg (pukeandburn), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

has it even come out yet?

― Palpatean Mists, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Not yet...leaked, though

― jeffrey michael rosenberg get in here right now young man (pukeandburn), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Deerhoof are the saviours of indiedom. This album is the grail.
October is too far away.

― timelag, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

indiedom?

― perols, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Dom Passatino's evil twin

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm i can't wait to download this and not buy it. I don't care if they lose money, i don't have any.

― Wee Lad, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

noise is shit

― noise is shit, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

It's pretty excellent. I can't stop listening to "Wrong Time Capsule."

Greg sez they've been given/sent a ton of Deerhoof covers from other bands and interested parties and they're planning on postin' some of them on the KRS website.

― ng-unit, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

y'all r seriously underesteeming these runners 4 singsongs the best thing happened to this planet 'cept no DC show what? fckn pandahatin morgantown wv hicktown?? hope they don't sleep on friend friend couches lest football happens

― diditall, Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Haven't heard the album yet but last night's show must have featured all the songs. Incredible. Somehow they've gotten even MORE telepathic, MORE ferocious.

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

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Then you must check out the record Greg did with Zac Hill of Hella and Joanna Newsom!

― ng, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Wha—?! For real? (Does. Not. Compute.)

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, does she sing on it? And if not — can anyone ysi?

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, for real! It's called Nervous Cop. Brandon Stosuy has a review in the Pitchfork archive, but you can use what every trusted source you like for more info.

― ng-unit, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Oof. That was not inspiring. (Searching glowing review to justify purchase/theft...)

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

watchoo talkin bout willis? NERVOUS COP disc is the shit!!! what all concrete / acousmatic should have been - a retro futurist reinvention via drum battle absolutely Stellar stuff - nice to hear ms newsom not acting cutesy & just playing some delightful (improv?) abstraction also

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

No, not me, Bob. I meant the review was not inspiring. I will consider your enthusiasm the justification I was looking for...can you post this thing?

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

nervous cop is dreadful

― gary d'bleunre (dr g), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

"Hari, well said."

-----could someone explain this

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I gave a link to a Nervous Cop track in the ysi/gmail thread. Don't get too excited, the album's pretty bad.

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

martha colburn's new 16mm film... is the new deerhoof video!

http://marthacolburn.com/deeerhooof/DH_stream.mov

this is such the great thing to have happened. she's such a cool filmmaker. this video is fun, but the main reason for happiness today was me discovering her online archive of her old films: http://marthacolburn.com/index.php?id=7

cats amore!

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

They sold out the Great American Music Hall in SF on Saturday night (capacity 600).

I believe their last hometown gig was at the Elbo Room (maybe 100-120 people at the show).

What happened in the last 3 months?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

This record rocks!

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Definitely my favorite record of theirs. I can't get past "Twin Killers," and that's track 2. It's also nice to have the lyric sheet and see how she does some interesting things to fit the lyrics in. Yeah, loving this.

― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't get into this album.

― I was CRYING when Huell Howser's head exploded in a local feed store (dr g), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"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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