Deerhunter!

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.

Here's a cool interview

http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/7159

God, this album is great. Definitely feeling the CCR vibe on the Pensacola track.

lol morrissey

God, this album is great. Definitely feeling the CCR vibe on the Pensacola track.
― scubasteve, Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:37 AM

how do u already have it

oh it leaked

3 -4 songs in - this is a much more direct - rock n' roll record. Like they are on different drugs for this one. Bradford Cox singing is more vehement and the whole sound is more convincing. Very enjoyable indeed.

I love how all of "Monomania" is just set up/window dressing for that climatic last minute

Need to give the whole time to gel as an album. Half of its amazing, half is pro forma - like this should be 3 or 5 eps

Oh, "THM." You foxy, uncouth minx, you.

I am seriously crazy nuts about this whole album...

Parts of this record remind me of the Pumpkins' more contemplative side...

Best:

LJ II
Pensacola
THM
Monomania
Nitebike
Punk

Definitely.

The closing trio are just gangbusters.

"Back to Middle" has me wanting a video featuring Pundt and Cox dressed up as Laverne and Shirley for some reason

"leather jacket ii" sounds like the oh sees

this is pretty good but i miss the arty less direct-r'n'r side of theirs

pitchfork article/interview from today:

Shortly before the band entered producer Nicolas Vernhes' Brooklyn-based Rare Book Room studio at the top of 2013, McKay was added as bassist, and Deerhunter's current incarnation bashed out Monomania over a few weeks, recording straight to Tascam eight-track recorders (hence the album's bruised, brutally lo-fi feel).

Nitebike sounds like Johnny Thunders?

http://www.collapseboard.com/reviews/albums-reviews/deerhunter-monomania-4ad/#comment-390212

This review sums up how I feel about this record and band exactly.

That review kinda says it, doesn't it?

About Deerhunter, specifically.

I was just thinking about this last night, how Cox works best in a self-curated compilation sense.

I played this for someone the other day, and while the highs are really good, it's the first album of theirs where a song comes on and I immediately want to skip to another.

Kind of amazed that lots of people think this is the best record yet.

or their most consistent.

Think i still like Microcastle/Weird Era way more than this

i'm with u

Microcastle was a bit overfussed. However Weird Era is a huge favorite for me.

I thought halcyon digest was super consistent, but excited to hear this one

It's streaming on NPR.

thanks Evan

instant reaction upon first listen is that, lo fi production aside, it sounds really underwritten

It's starting to seem like

Lockett Pundt is to Bradford Cox as
Tobin Sprout is to Robert Pollard

i agree w/ both of those xposts. also, getting tired of Bradford's vocal schtick—weary, distorted, wasted, etc.

why can't they just bust out the sweeet shoogaze jams : /

this is the first deerhunter album that isn't doing it for me. much preferred the last atlas sound to it.

I want to like this band - I listened to cryptograms, I bought a copy of Microcastle when it came out etc but nothing grabs me about them. I guess it's okay when I'm listening to it but an hour later I've completely forgotten everything about it.

and now it sounds like they've made a BRMC record? lol

Weird Era is where it's at. Best thing they've done.

I am liking this less the more I listen - although I still find this more listenable than previous efforts which sounded like hazy blah to me.

Z S, can you just email me directly? I keep trying to respond to yr ILX mail and every time I enter the word code the shit doesn't work

Elisionbebop

It's a gmail address

I'm returning from a camping trip right now but I'll be home later tonight! Btw I think I included my email address in the ilx mail message? Maybe not, I can't remember.

hinklepink otm, though i'm still in the "wow, this is great!" phase. i've liked stray tracks in the past, but this is the first deerhunter album to really grab me. did like that one cover with the deers having cock sex.

"Blue Agent" sort of feels like it hits that "Flourescent Grey"-era mysteriousness. That one acoustic song is super Kurt Vile, which is cool, cos it's good, and Kurt Vile is a rad dude.

That one acoustic song is super Kurt Vile, which is cool, cos it's good, and Kurt Vile is a rad dude.

"nitebike" - kv's def in there, but the first thing it suggested to me was acoustic johnny thunders.

last three tracks are stunning! "monomania" is maybe the best heads-down rock song i've heard so far this year, all the more so for the emotional heft. i got everything maxed and it still isn't loud enough. "monomonomania monomonomania" part could go for another half hour and still i'd be happy.

a lot of complaining abt the turn to garage rock, but i get the feeling that the whole album is a presented as a tribute to misspent youth, triumphant nostalgia for past misery. that's mostly a product of "punk (la vie anterieure)", but i'm trying it on as a frame.

"pensacola" is only track i'm not feeling, too familiar, not enough energy to pull it off.

Contrnderizer mostly OTM

With "Pensecola" a weird thing happens - for the first 30 seconds I'm like ugh, then it wins me over

maybe i'll get there, i've only listened twice

"monomania" is maybe the best heads-down rock song i've heard so far this year, all the more so for the emotional heft.

^^^^ this.

couldn't tell he was saying "monomania" at the end of "monomania" what does that mean

if we're going to do rock again these guys might be sensitive