Deerhunter!

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.

I am liking it v much

Cannot get 'What Happens to People' out of my brain

'Elemental' has a real 'Let England Shake' (the album) vibe

the rest is microcastle with piano + LES lyric vibes

desire lines is their best for sure

except for the length it's indistinguishable from guided by voices. there's even a lyrical nod to "echos myron"

this is fine. i feel like all their albums after Halcyon have been a bit samey though and thisi isn't an exception.

Keeping my fingers crossed that snow either doesn't fall here tomorrow or is light because DEERHUNTER ARE COMING TO BMORE

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.

It was amazing. Sorry you weren't able to get tickets.

JFC

https://www.stereogum.com/2051988/deerhunter-bradford-cox-heckler-cultural-appropriation/video/

Uhh..

“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...?

Exactly.

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

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 Diamonds
2. Futurism
3. Duplex Planet
4. Memory Boy
5. Microcastle
6. Vox Celeste
7. Strange Lights
8. Dream Captain
9. Revival
10. River Card
11. Pensacola
12. Eveningness

13. Like New
14. Parallax
15. Helicopter
16. Nothing Ever Happened
17. The Missing
18. Criminals
19. Take Care
20. What Happens to People?
21. Doldrums
22. 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

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/

Covid considered, they are not too much behind their typical album cycle. I’m friendly with Lockett and the last time I saw him he said they are still planning to continue being a band. Bradford has always had health problems, so I think it might just be a pause.