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
― niels, Sunday, 17 June 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
i wish we could get a new Lotus Plaza album
― alpine static, Sunday, 17 June 2018 09:02 (five years ago) link
Weird to see the bass missing an A string, I wonder why?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 17 June 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
oops now I see!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 17 June 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link
― 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)
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
By the way, the Moon Diagrams (by drummer Moses) stuff has been great too, don't sleep on that.
https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/music
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
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
― alpine static, Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
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/
― austinb, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
huh, not sure what happened with the video, hope this link works
― austinb, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
So great, that old Deerhunter magic. The Double Dream of Spring tape, which I just recently managed to hear, also has lots of harpsichord.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
fuck yeah harpsichord
― J. Sam, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
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
― Position Position, Sunday, 4 November 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
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. :(
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 4 November 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
RIP
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 4 November 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
also, holy heck at the performance link Bangs shared
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 4 November 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
He was hypnotic the one time I saw him play.
All the posts linked here are sweet/heartbreaking.
― geoffreyess, Monday, 5 November 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
:((
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 5 November 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
Holy shit I really love this band
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
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
― niels, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
what a fuckin weirdo
https://www.stereogum.com/2027586/deerhunter-2019-interview/franchises/interview/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 January 2019 06:01 (five years ago) link
i enjoy reading his ramblings, but cryptograms is not concrète, unless i'm either hearing it completely wrong or i misunderstand the genre
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 06:05 (five years ago) link
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
― alpine static, Friday, 11 January 2019 08:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― The thing from the popular "That Thing" song (bernard snowy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
dang, it's gone now!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
monomania is my fave of his albums tbh
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
He also sez Stereolab's "Blue Milk" is the greatest song of all time. I like it, yeah. Greatest? I dunno.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
This album is really, really good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
I am liking it v much
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
Cannot get 'What Happens to People' out of my brain
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
'Elemental' has a real 'Let England Shake' (the album) vibe
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
the rest is microcastle with piano + LES lyric vibes
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 01:37 (five years ago) link
desire lines is their best for sure
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 26 January 2019 05:40 (five years ago) link
except for the length it's indistinguishable from guided by voices. there's even a lyrical nod to "echos myron"
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 26 January 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
this is fine. i feel like all their albums after Halcyon have been a bit samey though and thisi isn't an exception.
― akm, Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
Keeping my fingers crossed that snow either doesn't fall here tomorrow or is light because DEERHUNTER ARE COMING TO BMORE
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 2 March 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
BMore show sold out before I could get tix . Live in DC area but couldn’t make DC gig the night before that I heard was good but deafeningly loud.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 March 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
It was amazing. Sorry you weren't able to get tickets.
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
JFC
https://www.stereogum.com/2051988/deerhunter-bradford-cox-heckler-cultural-appropriation/video/
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 July 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
Uhh..
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 22 July 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
“During the set, Bradford Cox started a dialogue with a heckler accusing him of cultural appropriation because he said he’s a huge fan of Twin Peaks, and he said was planning on staying in North Bend at the Salish Lodge that night so that he could explore Snoqualmie the next day.”
I fail to see how this is cultural appropriation...?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 22 July 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
Exactly.
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 July 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
i'm not sure what thread to bump for this, and i haven't listened enough to start a new thread and proselytize, but i've been listening to a lot of Ulrika Spacek recently (just their album Modern English Decoration - haven't even gotten to their other stuff) and it's very good. there's an early deerhunter-y vibe to some of the songs and i feel confident throwing a RIYL deerhunter tag on there, even though there are other strong influences as well
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 July 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
which*
realized it's way past time I put together mixes for my two favorite bands (Girlpool next), figured I'd share
1. Game of Diamonds2. Futurism3. Duplex Planet4. Memory Boy5. Microcastle6. Vox Celeste7. Strange Lights8. Dream Captain9. Revival10. River Card11. Pensacola12. Eveningness
13. Like New14. Parallax15. Helicopter16. Nothing Ever Happened17. The Missing18. Criminals19. Take Care20. What Happens to People?21. Doldrums22. Cover Me (Slowly)23. Agoraphobia
felt incomplete without some (4) Atlas Sound & a (1) Lotus Plaza. an earlier version (that I've already road tripped with, therefore official?) had "Mona Lisa" instead of "Parallax," there's no good way to not overrepresent that album
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:32 (eleven months ago) link
i was thinking of deerhunter/bradford cox today, and how it's been a minute since i heard anything from them. i did some light searching, found speculation on reddit that cox is just kind of taking it easy/doesn't feel like playing music lately (the spoon guy suggested as much in an interview a while back). but also, he returned earlier this year for an improv experimental set in athens:
https://www.stereogum.com/2230238/bradford-cox-performs-for-the-first-time-in-years-at-vintage-market-in-athens-ga/news/
― z_tbd, Friday, 22 December 2023 17:24 (three months ago) link