Deerhunter!

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

Weird to see the bass missing an A string, I wonder why?

oops now I see!

i wish we could get a new Lotus Plaza album

― alpine static, Sunday, June 17, 2018 4:02 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seconded (though I would also be up for a decent Atlas Sound LP, the last one didn't do it for me)

By the way, the Moon Diagrams (by drummer Moses) stuff has been great too, don't sleep on that.

https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/music

will check out Moon Diagrams and revisit my Atlas Sound stuff, but truth is i liked the last Lotus Plaza album more than *any* Deerhunter or Deerhunter-related release thus far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2TgCuMcjM&feature=youtu.be

new (very good, imo) single, album titled Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared out January 18th

also, there's this wild thing on their website labeled "A Note From Bradford" that i'm really into—total Timecube vibes https://deerhuntermusic.com/anotefrombradford/

huh, not sure what happened with the video, hope this link works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2TgCuMcjM&feature=youtu.be

So great, that old Deerhunter magic. The Double Dream of Spring tape, which I just recently managed to hear, also has lots of harpsichord.

fuck yeah harpsichord

Awful news:

Farewell to Josh Fauver, who made our world better with his music. This long live performance of “Nothing Ever Happened” stands out https://t.co/xHQMegsS8y

— Lance Bangs (@lancebangs) November 4, 2018

damn, RIP. i briefly met him at a party after a show at the empty bottle back during their cryptograms era, and he was so friendly and down to earth. :(

RIP

also, holy heck at the performance link Bangs shared

He was hypnotic the one time I saw him play.

All the posts linked here are sweet/heartbreaking.

:((

Holy shit I really love this band

that new single is v good

they (cox) have a bunch of spotify playlists published too, like this one https://open.spotify.com/user/deerhunter_official/playlist/3FiBxPoOphlVNme450gY3V?si=282NlapkQ2eKJJihd5ZiAQ

what a fuckin weirdo

https://www.stereogum.com/2027586/deerhunter-2019-interview/franchises/interview/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

But in a good way

I was very influenced by contemporary harpsichord music — a lot of Spanish composers, Genoveva Gálvez. A lot of people hear the harpsichord and think about baroque pop, and I strongly put my hand up at that. “No, no, no, no.” I enjoy the actual acoustics and temper of that instrument — the velocity, the rhythmic pushback. It’s not a liquid instrument, it’s very hard. It’s not a psychedelic instrument, and I hate psychedelic music. People always used to call Cryptograms psychedelic, and I would go, “No — it’s concrète.” It’s not pink and warm and fuzzy. It’s bloodstained and visceral.

i enjoy reading his ramblings, but cryptograms is not concrète, unless i'm either hearing it completely wrong or i misunderstand the genre

this is an enjoyable read, imo:

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/9k4pjv/rank-your-records-deerhunter-bradford-cox

BC talking about Lockett's songwriting just made me want a new Lotus Plaza album (as I have said before itt) even more

http://deerhunterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/why-hasnt-everything-already-disappeared

Looks like the whole thing is available to hear already... Seems slightly fishy tho, idk.

dang, it's gone now!

it leaked a while ago so i'm guessing someone uploaded the leak to bandcamp as 'deerhunterofficial' to try and scam some money out of people

ah, makes sense.

btw that noisey.vice link above is a pretty entertaining read, with the usual dose of bonkers statements from bradford. putting monomania at the top is challopsy enough, but then "Monomania is the greatest album I’ve ever made and anybody that doesn’t like it has no idea what I’m about or what I’m doing. They’re simply avid fans of what’s called indie rock and think we’re a notable indie rock band."

lol, ok

was surprised that weird era didn't make his top 5, either.

monomania is my fave of his albums tbh

He also sez Stereolab's "Blue Milk" is the greatest song of all time. I like it, yeah. Greatest? I dunno.

He says Desire Lines is his favourite Deerhunter song, which is magnificently otm - it's the only thing they've done that's completely blown me away and transcended what I thought the band capable of

This album is really, really good

I’ve listened to this three times now. I like it but it’s just sort of an average Deerhunter album. Nothing surprising nor extraordinarily compelling. Solid, I guess.