dan deacon

Why is this dude even still around?

Pitchfork

This is kinda the worst music of the past fifteen years of 'indie.' What a bunch of bullshit.

Look at his wacky clothes and silly glasses!

downloading Bromst now, sounds interesting...

check out "snookered." it sounds like early solo eno, almost like dd convinced him to guest

This is kinda the worst music of the past fifteen years of 'indie.' What a bunch of bullshit.

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Look at his wacky clothes and silly glasses!

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Ha, OTM!

ha, such total bullshit

thought Bromst was interesting but perhaps a little stiff

saw him live with his new 12 piece band on saturday night -- do not miss the live show. 3 drummers = if it wasn't on par with the Boredoms '99 shows when they were playing VCN, that's the only other concert that came to mind on the way home -- that good.

(haven't heard Spiderman / never saw his iPod-era live shows which I imagine were easier to dislike -- this too, still exhaustingly day-glo, but with a 12 piece band, there's real energy)

live only imo

I really like this album!

I can see what people mean with the MPP comparisons but I'd say it's more like Panda Bear X Battles X Trans Am.

I've never been all that enamored with this dude, but "Surprise Stefani" is incredible.

This guy was such an asshole at Primavera. Threatening to stop the gig cos the crowd, who were predominantly Spanish surpisingly enough, couldn't follow his directions and wouldn't join in with his wacky antics. How about playing some music dude?

Yeah, I listened to one of his shows that NPR streamed and at least 40% of it was him giving these ridiculous instructions to the crowd. The 30 minutes of actual music he played were pretty good though. Love his albums.

This is kinda the worst music of the past fifteen years of 'indie.'

nahhh

i saw him 3-4 years ago and thought he was super annoying and that the format of his shows is idiotic, came around to his records later but continue to be mystified that he's known as a good live act

This has turned out to be one of my favourite albums of the year, surprisingly. Between this and Fool's Gold I feel hella indie.

man i wish i'd seen him with the band

q.: listening to this thing of his on spotify, now, 'meetle mice': does anyone know anything about it? because it is not anything like what i would have expected

of him in 2007, i mean. this last track was either six minutes of free improv or a convincing simulacra thereof.

saw him in 2008 during one of those "round robin" tour shows . . . he was decent iirc but the bands he played with were mostly O_O iirc

also, the audience O_O

one band was drums, bass, and singer iirc and all i remember is the dude repeatedly saying "WE'RE BUILDING A GHOST TOWN"

current track sounds like trying to write an arrangement of other parts to an analogue synth where the oscillator's on random output

not sure if i was a fan; put bromst on instead

the Baltimore round robin thing is so awesome and fun when it's done right, but so many of the acts they took on that tour are just the dregs of the local warehouse one joke novelty act theater nerd indie fuxx scene.

Dan is looking for collaborators for a new project http://inlog.org/2010/07/09/dan-deacon-and-jimmy-joe-roche-are-looking-for-collaborators/

sounds lame bro

dan deacon, lame? get outta here...

new movie of the making of of hij new film project http://vimeo.com/14481232

don't miss him with the 12-piece band...it was incredible. one of the few live shows I've seen where the energy just kind of lifted the place to another level. its understandable if you don't like the crowd participation stuff but i dunno, some of that has got to be for his own amusement.

This is amazing:

http://mabsonenterprises.bandcamp.com/track/call-me-maybe-acapella-147-times-exponentially-layered

new album is pretty good

actually wanted to post that in a carly rae jepsen or call me maybe thread but I guess there isn't one?

'America'. Thoughts? I like the album so much more than the singles let on. A lot of the extended composition stuff he got into on 'Bromst'. Might need to digest it a bit more but it's really rubbing me the right way. The suite at the end is kind of the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack on Four Loko or something

what were the singles besides "Lots"? i like it but i feel a little like there's diminishing returns where the more i hear of his stuff the less impact each successive record has, regardless of quality.

Lots was the first single and the second was True Thrush? The rest of the album is a lot less distorted/yelling/chipmunk shit and a lot more instrumentation/orchestration which I actually think is one of his strengths

think I'll wait till my copy comes in but I really expect this to be very good

In the meantime, the "True Thrush" video is really one of the coolest concepts I've seen in forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnXiXlF7olo

I like the fact he's toned down the sugary toytown schtick (a little). My favourite at this stage I think USA i: is a monster is the best, the orchestration is excellent. I gave Bromst a glowing review back when it first came out but somehow never went back to it. Feel kind of the same way about this. It's okay while it's on , but I'm never in the mood for it.

Great video - I loved that!

dan deacon seriously has an album out and its called america? huh ok

it's political, thomp

tbf i kind of love him so i will probably listen to this as immediately as i am capable of

I gave Bromst a glowing review back when it first came out but somehow never went back to it.

I know where this is coming from, I really think Bromst is excellent, but it's almost too overwhelming to ever *want* to listen to sometimes. I don't think this is a strike against Deac; when that glitched out buzz honk that starts "Red F" comes on I always wonder if I'm really up for this, but in the end I'm always thinking that the album is a modern masterpiece. Like with Spiderman of the Rings I always remembered thinking that "Crystal Cat" and "Wham City" were so cool, wouldn't it be great if he made like, and entire album like that? And that's what Bromst is.

Exactly. It's more something I can appreciate for its craft than something I can truly enjoy.

I honestly think Bromst is a modern classic. It is a task to get through however. Generally I'll pop on 'Surprise Stefani' if I just need a taste as that track's got pretty much everything awesome about the album wrapped up in one imo

IMO, every track has everything awesome about the album wrapped up in one tune (outside of that brief vocal thing). I remember when P4K previewed "Snookered", I thought it was alright, but also thought, "I really hope this isn't the best he's got"; then when I actually heard the album I realized that "Snookered" was actually supposed to be the "mellow" tune, and that P4K likely chose it because it was the only one that was halfway comprehensible. I do definitely agree with the "modern classic" label, I can't forsee anything else sounding quite like this unless it comes from Deacon himself.

this is lovely so far

i wavered but i think i'm anti-bromst. one day i will make myself i. actually make the tent ii. give it another chance.

Thinking about putting together a comp of Deacon's pre-Spiderman stuff, there's probably like five hours of material out there but a lot of it really isn't very good, lots of chaos and art school type experiments and sine wave junk but also some real keepers that your typical "Dan Deacon guy" probably knows nothing about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-BZduxT2h4

saw him on this tour, probably the most fun show I've ever been to. Dan singled me out because I was wearing a bear hat, which in my state felt like appropriate attire for a Dan Deacon show

cool! SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS reissue w/ ULTIMATE REALITY on vinyl for the first time http://pitchfork.com/news/dan-deacon-announces-spiderman-of-the-rings-10-year-anniversary-reissue/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

Still have my white vinyl copy... somewhere... erghj i should look for that...

tour behind bromst was one of the best shows i've ever seen

me too. that whartscape video i posted upthread was one of the most exciting sets i've ever seen.

first time I saw dan live was a month before Spiderman came out, he opened for Girl Talk at a 300 cap. bar and played on the floor. i was squished up against him and danced like crazy the whole time. probably saw him 20+ times in those 3 years. eager to see whatever he's working on now.

just pulled up to the venue in his wacky oil-powered school bus they'd all been living/touring in and knew i was in for something special

:)

full Whartscape 2009 set, necessary viewing for any fan: https://vimeo.com/5624665

gonna be a good boy and wait until my preorder arrives but word is the new one is very very good

Yep it really is, I think everyone who’s a fan is gonna be satisfied with this

Just bought tickets for his tour. Not the biggest fan in the world but his is a show I've always wanted to see

I think everyone who’s a fan is gonna be satisfied with this

yep, very satisfied. I could have done with a change of pace in the second half - the whole thing's pretty relentless - but all good really. I was puzzling over the second 'disc' of edits on Spotify. Then I realised: they're perfect for playlists.

does anyone else wish he would stop using the same chord progression on multiple songs on every album of his

half of this is good, half is a retread imo

I can see that - the "Jimmy Joe Roche"/"Get Older" progression shows up a couple times, though he's got such a unique sound that I give him a pass on that sort of thing

my one minor complaint is that its pretty stuffed, feels like one of those albums that could've hit the hour mark but tried to cram everything into a single LP. tbh I don't know if this is necessarily a bad thing. as much as I like Bromst I've definitely wished it was cut down a bit

Pitchfork gave this a 6.4 even though the review is pretty much entirely positive, minus a comment about the lyrics. pretty much what I expect outta them these days.

ok I def hear that on "Sat By a Tree" now, it's like an AI-generated Dan Deacon single (something that probably only bothers me: there's a vocal part in it that sounds copped from TMBG's "Window")

rest of it sounds pretty fresh. I think "Arp" might be the best thing he's ever done so far. next to "USA" I guess.

he has a new soundtrack album out, called Well Groomed, a movie about...I dunno, haircuts for dogs or something

I didn't really get into his other soundtracks but this one is pretty good in a "Dan Deacon lite" sorta way, lotta shimmery and very pretty bits in here, almost sounds like Harmonia

this rules

I've got his main albums on vinyl now and something that strikes me about the first 3 is they have bits which just overwhelm the speakers ("True Thrush" and "Get Older" are the two biggest offenders). normally I'd say they were just mastered lousy but I wonder if there's something inherent in Dan's music that vinyl can't handle. like it's too dense to be accurately etched into the wax. Gliss Riffer & Mystic Familiar don't have that problem.

lmao sorry but this was the best rendition of the national anthem I've ever heard

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/fans-speaking-out-after-wacky-national-anthem-performance-at-orioles-game/ar-AA1IrhqT?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Hell yeah

Xp
I really do think Dan approached the limits of what speakers and our tiny little ear hole+brain connection can handle. Listening to Bromst on CD on a perfect sound system with young teenage ears was an all time musical experience. These days? I just end up wishing my speakers were better and my ears less worn.

No talk of the off thr air showing here in 2012?!

https://vimeo.com/69488452

So good so good