Deerhunter!

see first reply in this thread, and response.

oh. guess in my response to that i didn't elaborate beyond "he has that disorder. forgot it's name". anyway.

Sorry that was a piss-poor contribution, didn't read it from the start.

But at the moment my wife is suffering from a terminal disease and can barely walk and has perma-migraines so my sympathy only has a limited reach.

"Leather Jacket II" is crazy delicious/disjointed

Great album but I'm still coming to grips with is

And I'm someone who'd kinda written Deerhunter off

(And post-Logos AS too)

lol, there's only one post-Logos album! people didn't seem to like that one much, but i thought it was awesome.

Is it streaming somewhere?

the last atlas sound was awesome!

yeah Parallax might be my very fav Atlas Sound. definitely preferred it to Halcyon Digest, tho I still need to give the latter another chance

Woah what is this leaked or something?

Yeah Bradford has Marfan syndrome (same thing Joey Ramone had), which is why he's skinny and has a concave chest.

My drummer loves this band and Atlas Sound. I just hear extremely weedy psychedelia whenever he plays it - Grizzly Bear but even more hollowed-out. Am I wrong?

stoked. that press photo.. who are those dudes? looks like maybe drummer and lockett on the left but no idea about the other two

guy on the far right is the replacement for the bassist, who left recently (i think). second to right has been in the band a long time (i think) but seems to keep a low profile

lovelovelove this album. title track is a MONSTER.

guy on the far right is the replacement for the bassist, who left recently (i think). second to right has been in the band a long time (i think) but seems to keep a low profile
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, March 28, 2013 1:14 PM

ok i figured one had to be new bassist. the other guy was not with them when saw them live. its not the black lips guy?

Shame about the bass player. He was a beast, his propulsive playing drives all my favourite Deerhunter songs. Fucking wrecked out his mind every time I've seen them live though. Shame.

New non-bass player member is Frankie Broyles, who was in ATL garage bank The Balkans. They were going on tour w Atlas Sound a year or two ago but i think they broke up before they went on tour or something. Frankie does cool shoegaze solo stuff and ended up opening as a solo act on the tour, and he's been working w Bradford pretty regularly ever since.

Josh, Moses and Lockett all got married last year. I can't wait to hear the new stuff but I'll miss Josh. I was enthralled with the bass riff on "Cryptograms" from the first time i heard it.

garage bank LOL

sometimes ATL feels like a garage bank

oh, i liked the one Balkans song i heard. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYUENZQ84-E

^^^^ That's the one

wacky fallon performance

new album is far better than the last one to my ears. much more upbeat and garagey, lots of fun.

^^^
THIS

"Let's quit with tons of studio experiments and just rock like a band again"

thought that their last album had some of the band's most upbeat moments ever tbh (fountain stairs, coronado) but yeah i'm excited to hear it

Yeah I always thought the bass parts were the most compelling. Bummer I guess, but I haven't heard the new record at all yet.

garagey

i don't consider this a good thing tbh

trust me markers this album is a good thing

i hope you're right for the sake of humanity

if you're wrong we're all fucked

I'm as right as a subjective opinion can ever be.

WOW, the fallon performance blew me away

Best thing about that performance was obviously Brad walking through the hall. I was kinda hoping for something more punk and raw based on the hype, this pretty much sounds like HD-era Deerhunter song w an extra guitar.

Which is still GREAT EFFING MUSIC imo. Just not as strange or surprising as i was hoping for.

what do they think about the band "the dear hunter"

great name

They are probably just glad they did not name their band "The Dear Hunter"

Monomania song reminds me of early Telescopes. Probably had a lot to do with that wig.

new bassist is Josh McKay from Macha

that fallon performance was incredible

he kinda looked like a zombie John Cooper Clarke on the show

fucking lol at this interview http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/deerhunter-really-really-dislike-morrissey-and-the-smiths

"The Smiths wrote complaint slips that nobody read. Morrissey's influence is so crippling that it could even deteriorate the flower of modern creative thought. It's like a pungent death shroud over the future and the past."

he's a great, GREAT interviewee.

I've never liked anything I've heard by them, but that interview makes me want to try again. I tried again withThe Smiths a few months ago based on Bands you keep trying to like but can't get into . I tried them out again, but after a couple of days, it got all "Yep: nope."

Ha that was fun

The new album is wonderful, and probably a fine starting point, how's life.

Never really got into this band very much but I like this a lot - it occurs to me this sounds quite a bit like Jay Reatard - they were friends were they not?

They did a split 7" covering one another in 2008, and "He Would Have Laughed" is apparently an elegy for Jay.

Yeah this is cool. It's a great modern southern psych record. The 'punk' bits are only on a few songs in the beginning and I was getting a Strokes vibe from one track and a CCR vibe from another. The freakout ending to "Leather Jacket II" is really great. It's kind of weird, like a big mix of all previous DH stuff crammed into one album. Some parts of it literally sound like 2007-era home demos, some parts of it sound like Halcyon Digest-era songs. Feels like an album of really great songs that will grow on me more and more with every successive listen, but right now nothing stands out immensely.