jeez how many different songs called 'flower' have they got
this is a p good record
― yo is it true mcanus got sonned by a disco after a sunno))) beef (electricsound), Monday, 10 September 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
lol i know
― spazzmatazz, Monday, 10 September 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/SkGB8r012q8
new record came out Tuesday, this track is fun as FUCK
album is called La Isla Bonita. dunno if it can beat breakup song, tho
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh, that's so awesome, I had no idea. I really should pay more attention to what they're up to. One of the most consistently great bands of the past decade.
― I'm In The Mood To Munch! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Deerhoof vs. CERN
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2053121
― polyphonic, Sunday, 20 September 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
they needed a live album and the new one is v fun
― ogmor, Thursday, 25 February 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
there is a NEW new one!!!!
After all the accolades from press and peers, what’s a legendary band to do? Forget the recording studio, rent out an abandoned office space in the middle of the New Mexico desert, set up, plug in and play REALLY LOUD. Starting with hardly a notion of the outcome, by seven days later Deerhoof had found (you guessed it) The Magic: a raw and refreshing 15-song wallop of an album about what happens when you leave your comfort zone.The version of Deerhoof you hear on The Magic is a most punch-drunk proposition. Everyone showed up in the mood to sing. Satomi, Greg, John and Ed dream up alchemies of punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, attitude and spandex. Poetry into noise. Volume knob into gratification. Friendship into rock band.According to drummer Greg, the music on The Magic was lurking in the shadows of "what we liked when we were kids - when music was magic - before you knew about the industry and before there were rules. Sometimes hair metal is the right choice."For singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki The Magic is but the latest episode of an ongoing gamble: "I joined Deerhoof a week after I arrived in San Francisco from Japan. I hopped on a MUNI bus to have a first meeting but got off at a wrong stop. I was lost and confused. They found me on a dark street corner after I called for help from a pay phone. Since then my adventure expanded. Deerhoof is a vehicle with four powered wheels that takes me through forest, desert and buildings. My life is adventure!"The Magic is a mixtape imbued with Deerhoof's sorcery -- boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. It is a mixtape by the kid with the biggest music collection you've ever seen, who will take you camping and show you how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
The version of Deerhoof you hear on The Magic is a most punch-drunk proposition. Everyone showed up in the mood to sing. Satomi, Greg, John and Ed dream up alchemies of punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, attitude and spandex. Poetry into noise. Volume knob into gratification. Friendship into rock band.
According to drummer Greg, the music on The Magic was lurking in the shadows of "what we liked when we were kids - when music was magic - before you knew about the industry and before there were rules. Sometimes hair metal is the right choice."
For singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki The Magic is but the latest episode of an ongoing gamble: "I joined Deerhoof a week after I arrived in San Francisco from Japan. I hopped on a MUNI bus to have a first meeting but got off at a wrong stop. I was lost and confused. They found me on a dark street corner after I called for help from a pay phone. Since then my adventure expanded. Deerhoof is a vehicle with four powered wheels that takes me through forest, desert and buildings. My life is adventure!"
The Magic is a mixtape imbued with Deerhoof's sorcery -- boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. It is a mixtape by the kid with the biggest music collection you've ever seen, who will take you camping and show you how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
Awesome. Sounds great. So glad they are still around and making good work.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't even say they're one of my very favorite bands (but maybe they are?) but they are a band that, as a band and what they have done and continue to do, I have SO MUCH respect and admiration and love for
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
I would absolutely say they're one of my favorite working bands. And there hasn't even been like a slow decline in quality or anything, like that thing where you continue to indulge a musical act's newer and more mediocre work because they did stuff back in the day that you really loved. Some of their more recent stuff is among the best they've done, imo.
― You're A Peein' Youth In Asia (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
dammit, i want my adventure to expand
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
i probably told the story somewhere on ilx in the past but i'll always have infinite respect and <3 for deerhoof, esp Greg, because he went out of his way to help me get into an over-21 show when i was underage. i didn't even ask - he offered. he's a great guy.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link
also he is one of the greatest drummers of all time
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
"Avant-rockers Deerhoof team with the elite contemporary classical outfit Ensemble Dal Niente for a weird and wonderful musical exchange. "
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21806-balter-saunier/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Spl-lHcAao
The track they put out, "Cherubim", is fantastic. I pre-ordered this straight away. Super excited!
― Andrew (nf), Thursday, 28 April 2016 01:36 (eight years ago) link
You can hear the whole thing here. I've been listening to it a lot. I brought it up on two other threads but no one replied, ha.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Thursday, 28 April 2016 01:52 (eight years ago) link
Thank you!
― Andrew (nf), Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
gracias
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:19 (eight years ago) link
New album is the best since Runners Four. and I liked Breakup Song a lot.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's fantastic, maybe their best album....ever?
at the very least it's their most immediate album. usually takes 3-5 listens for a deerhoof album to sink in for me but i loved this from the first spin.15 tracks and not a single dud.
streaming at npr for those who are interested.
― woman in the dunes, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
yeah, this is a fun album! I need to spend more time with it. This and the last one are the best they've been in a good while.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
digging this, it bangs
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
recorded in 6 days (!)
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:24 (seven years ago) link
first track is lovely. thanks for the heads up
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:33 (seven years ago) link
Ensemble dal Niente collab is very nice.
― spastic heritage, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link
apparently, the first 600 vinyl preorders of the new album come with a handmade cassette tape of the band covering david bowie, madonna, van halen, def leppard, malaria!, public enemy and sonic youth. here's "pour some sugar on me":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeugsEGMfJs
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 02:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah! i got that cassette and thought it was just someone's old mixtape. Polyvinyl always sends you tchotchkes with your record - pins, stickers, a mystery-flavored Airhead. imagine my surprise when I heard THAT ^...
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
haven't checked the post office to see whether i made the cut. hoping, but i kind of doubt it.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
thank god for this band. they are our north star
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 06:39 (seven years ago) link
yeah, loving this
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
yes
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
so bummed i missed them when they came through (work night, burnt out from mixing all day). i looked at some of their recent setlists and was disappointed so many of my favorite songs on The Magic haven't been played live yet ("The Devil and his...," "Acceptance Speech," "Criminals of the Dream"), but it's cool that they have so many albums that they basically play one song from each plus 4 from the new one and bam, there's a set.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
"Criminals of the Dream" is greattt
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Probably the best thing they've done since Offend Maggie imo. But like all Deerhoof albums there are a few standouts and a few tracks that I don't strongly dislike but could happily live without.
The Balter/Saunier thing is pretty great.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
new single is bliss
https://famousclass.bandcamp.com/album/i-thought-we-were-friends
― calstars, Friday, 21 October 2016 00:43 (seven years ago) link
Yeah we talked about it some on Rolling Indie Pop Rock last summer, and I'm still digging it:
Just finished my first listen to Deerhoof's The Magic. 15 tracks in 40' 29", and I know I haven't taken it all in, but plenty instant gratification---"Plastic Thrills" could've been the fitting title track---and I love the drumming throughout.
― dow, Saturday, June 25, 2016 2:11 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, ive never been a huge Deerhoof guy but i thought that new one sounded great...for the band's fans, is this their most "accessible"? or no?
― alpine static, Saturday, June 25, 2016
― dow, Friday, 21 October 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
i saw them in berlin a while ago and i didn't appreciate the concert. very repetitive noisy short tracks which felt like sketches not like complete songs. the dynamic japanese singer with all her gestures towards the audience was quite funny. if these people master their instruments they were very successful in hiding it.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 21 October 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Surprised to hear that. Saunier is a great drummer
― calstars, Friday, 21 October 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
I'm surprised too. I've seen them 2 or 3 times and they're always really on point and excellent players
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Just discovered that Saunier and Satomi are married
― calstars, Friday, 21 October 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
was kinda thrown by the new vocals (Ed Rodriguez?), on a few tracks on The Magic... makes their music sound more generic somehow.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 21 October 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
or it's the songs themselves (structure, riffage etc.) that sounded generic.. on those songs where Ed (?) sings
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 21 October 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, October 21, 2016 3:59 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
!
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 October 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Many of these tracks have classic rock nods, def. But it's not a bad thing. They do it rly well.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 22 October 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
"Criminals of the Dream" is greattt― calstars, Monday, July 4, 2016 8:19 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My favorite 🌟🌟🌟
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 22 October 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
lol at anyone being surprised by alex in mainhattan's incredibly poor judgement re: music quality
― sleeve, Saturday, 22 October 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
new album is excellent, I play a track or two every week on my radio show since it's in rotation
https://youtu.be/1Q2g3Fo2A7k
Life is Suffering - i keep coming back to this track
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 22 October 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
still think this album holds up
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 22 October 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
still haven't given it (The Magic) a thorough listen/rinsing. Breakup Song still holds up w/its high energy and novel hooks throughout--it's super concise, and it bangs. they've quite an impressive run of albums. i read somewhere that they recorded The Runners Four live, w/minimal post-production (additional layering etc.).. can anyone confirm that?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/mJLLW8Ye7tI
Deerhoof - Mirror Monster (Official Video)
beautiful track and video
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link