Deerhunter!

it is super duper

i will try to channel a little league dad and say they are "in the zone" there

Yeah "Breaker" is really good.

Trying to channel Beach House on "Take Care" imo

bradford cox goes full on adrian belew-era david bowie here:

http://pitchfork.com/news/61992-deerhunter-perform-extended-version-of-snakeskin-and-more-fading-frontier-tracks-on-kcrw/

from the interviews and stuff over the last year or so (since his accident) i had the impression that he was stabilizing a bit but he seems genuinely unhinged here

That's kind of weird to watch
Live takes make me want to listen to the album again
Halcyon digest is still great

i wouldn't count myself as a fan but that footage is wicked - he is very compelling - great to see them so loose and noisy

So I guess the blonde hair in the last couple of videos was a wig. He looks like Glenn Morrow in that performance.

best band

Really like the new album but "leather and wood" is a momentum killer.

not sure why dude is so obsessed with kandinsky. who's to say what "now" is -- seems kind of self-serving. i can appreciate penderecki with or without historizing him same as michaelangelo or george eliot. but whatever, just glad someone as beyond talented as ATLAS SOUND isn't totally dumbing himself down. new album is killer

the opener and duplex planet are great. looking forward to atlas sound live

I like this new record a lot.

m2

yeah, i agree with a bunch of people on this thread. new album is great, loving it.

http://pitchfork.com/news/62421-bradford-cox-details-alleged-aggressive-encounter-with-billy-corgan-and-smashing-pumpkins-crew/

whoa

"The encounter didn't happen. We have video of it."

I mean, in the best possible way Brad is an unreliable narrator, but Corgan *did send his bodyguards after Everett True in the 90s following a bad review.

Love the italics in

you were invited to open for the Smashing Pumpkins.

Damn.

you were invited to open for the Smashing Pumpkins.

they played snippets of "today" in philly last night amid another 20+ minute "rap" about people recording his stage banter. hope dude isn't turning into mark kozelek

bradford's letter was nice, and his point about banter is pretty otm

can i sue billy cogan bc the world is not a vampire?

Billy saw Twilight coming from a mile away

LOL @ bradford slinking away with his tail between his legs

Don't see it as slinking away. See it as him suggesting the whole thing is pretty ridiculous (as is most pitchfork live-show related controversy) and then offering up an eloquent retraction, ie why make it any worse? Kozelek would in turn piss on it further, I feel.

You might remember that back at the same year of this "incident" p4k was writing about how Bradford was blogging about his poop or something. If that says anything.

Funny how Trollzelek is so legendary at making these things worse he has already been brought up in two entirely different ways itt for no other reason.

if Bradford's story had any truth behind it, he'd stick to it and demand SP release the video tape. As it stands, his story is slanderous and I'm glad he quickly apologized for it.

i like the part where he's led to the backroom with corgan alone is his chair like Brando in Apocalypse Now

you are opening for the smashing pumpkins at the ohio state university

why does billy tape all of his interactions? is the larger question here

To keep bullshit like this from sullying his reputation.

That's why I always have a GoPro strapped to my head.

i'd want to act up if there was all that surveillance

still i call bullshit on BC. i'm not a smashing pumpkins fan or anything but the one time i saw them, a loooong time ago, SHUDDER to THINK opened up when they were in full glam prog mode. the audience were booing the fuck out of them and started throwing shit. it got bad enough billy ended up walking out, picking up a shoe someone had chucked at the stage, sniffing it, and saying into the mic, "you boo these guys, you boo us -- and we don't play when people boo us," then walking back off stage. hard for me to picture that guy pulling a total 360 and turning into an asshole as huge as BC describes

in other news, show was flat out awesome in philly last night. twenty minutes of "nothing ever happened" sounded like prime CAN or NEU!

I think we can all agree that BC comes off as the asshole here, while BC, on the other hand, is looking good.

heh

What have the atlas sound portions of this tour been like? New stuff? Old stuff? New takes on old stuff?

I'm curious about that as well

New stuff? Old stuff? New takes on old stuff?

all of the above. was just him with what seemed to be a portable version of his studio setup. did some abstract things, taped voice interludes, different sounding version of 'sheila', some older stuff, newer stuff that i didn't recognize.

nothing ever happens is turning into their sister ray, went on for at least 20-30 min. his mid-set stage rant was about his love for the 9:30 club which was sweet

I was in the car for a few hours today and listened to the not-particularly-new one. Liked a couple of songs, didn't like a couple towards the end, neutral on most of it. The one song I love is "Ad Astra."

i thought the vaguely english-beat-sounding version (complete with near-constant sax) of "living my life" they did on tv recently was a lot better than the version recorded for the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7PAacr7LJc

cool version!

maybe on paper lyrics seem a bit grim, but the way it's sung inspires a lot of confidence imo

bradford cox's hat also deserve a lot of props.

They're playing a greatest hits sort of setlist on their current tour. Last night's First Ave show was so good they could immediately release it as a live album.

Sounds good to this casual fan of theirs

today i wondered "what's up with deerhunter?", so i googled "deerhunter live"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2EuD9C8VbA

i guess it's not nice to judge based on a show that seemed plagued with poor sound, but they kind of look lost out there, and at some point half the band got replaced (or left)?

only lineup changes they've had lately are adding a keyboard player + percussionist, they changed bass players a few album ago but thats it

I saw a similar show a few years back, sound was very noisy, hard to make out which songs they were playing, pretty disappointing

Halcyon Digest and Fading Frontier are all time for me

i wish we could get a new Lotus Plaza album