Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

yeah, thx

"Basement Scene" is my fave right now!

Btw both "Desire Lines" and "Fountain Stairs" were first previewed last year in a live Lotus Plaza lineup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CfM-1bFUiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpo9OA20kdI

Bradford would like to provide some context on Halcyon Digest and will be hosting a live video chat tonight from 10-11pm Eastern time.

http://www.yowie.com/show/140

w00

this album is great! will buy this in two weeks time.

many people listen to the live feed? bits of it were quite good but i kept logging off then going back an hour later to see it was still going. 4 and a half hours in the end.

he mentioned Ben Allen's son doing the recording of one of the songs onto tape. I'm pretty sure he said it was 'Memory Boy' which is pretty damn good for a 16 year olds first professional recording.

Revival is a wonderful two and a bit minutes of psyche-pop perfection and after a couple of listens my impression is that Halcyon Digest is another fantastic Deerhunter album that will be on the walkman for a long time. Microcastle was a bit of a flawed gem but that is what I like about the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound albums, they are always seem a bit uneven but contain moments of startling brilliance that probably wouldn't happen if they didn't continually push on with every release as they have done so far.

streaming http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129866612

not huge on this album, it has some really nice sounds/production but the songwriting is really repetitive. kinda dig it in the background but it's not one of my faves of the year.

one thing about the flood of legally available new music these days is that it kills the attention span. september 14 was a huge day for new releases, some of which were pretty interesting, but with deerhunter's new disc (and no age's, salem's, and so on) on the immediate horizon, i can't find time for the "old" new releases.

anyway, thanks for the stream link.

i can't find time for the "old" new releases

so sad, but so true

"Oh, that came out a month ago? Well, if it isn't really, really great, then I need to pay attention to these few new records I'm interested in that are coming out tomorrow."

Deerhunter is a band I wish I liked more... everything about their sound lines up with everything I like - maybe too neatly, and maybe that's the problem. Like it's so in my wheelhouse that it's boring and predictable. I don't know. But this album feels just okay - not as good as the last one, which I liked but was never over the moon for.

part of the key for me with this band is how brutally direct they are with their lyrics, e.g., Agoraphobia and Fluorescent Grey.

appropos of nothing, i guess.

i feel like this album is very uneven which has been the case w lot of their work i guess.

I think it works very well with the scruffier/more raw sounding songs like Memory Boy being shorter and scattered between the very clean and very good songs. Too many killer tracks on an album can sometimes be a bad thing.

I'm enjoying this album more than i did Microcastle to begin with and much more than Cryptograms.

i feel like this album is very uneven

^^ theres a really awesome ep here padded w/ some trax that sound unfinished somehow. and srsly coronado i never want to hear that again

which has been the case w lot of their work i guess.

not really

much more likable than that horrible Atlas Sound record and the filler is enjoyable. It frames the good stuff and makes those tracks sound better though the overall listening experience is obviously hurt.

Harumph! There are some reet cloth eared cunts on this thread. Deerhunter dont overwork the life out of their songs and create albums that offer a bit more than just lucid and predictable rock nusic. If you like them they affect you in a sensory and emotional way . There is no point expecting 11 traditional killer rock tunes expertly sequenced to cater to the average bedroom music fans wet dream ideal of a perfect album with Deerhunter. If you want dross like that get some plodding mediocrity like The Hold Steady - never a more aptly monikered band whose entire output could be reduced to a mere grain of fucking rice, never mind an EP.

whoa dude

And I don't even like the hold steady

u mad?

I'd be inclined to agree with the EP bit...

Is Hold Steady bedroom music?

"Deerhunter dont overwork the life out of their songs"

Kind of felt like Microcastle was too over thought and careful. Weird Era wasn't because of how quick they threw it together, and it felt more natural overall, which I've said elsewhere.

Still have to listen to the new one.

Listen to it Evan, you possibly will love it.

shut up dickface

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stop laughing at me

The album's a little low-key, isn't it? Was hoping for another "Nothing Ever Happens."

replace coronado w/ b-side primitive 3-d http://www.wpclipart.com/smiley/tiny/tiny_smiley_shades.png

of interest: 9.2.

listening to their previous 2 albums i think i have their formula figured out:

1. mumble some random words
2. test out some guitar pedals
3. don't write anything memorable

of interest: 9.2.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, September 27, 2010 1:27 AM

dope -- will be picking this up on Tuesday for sure

oh man, new No Age out Tuesday and then Marnie Stern next week

class of 2007!!!

A+

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picked this up. the liner notes fold out into a really cool, well-design mini-poster sort of deal

*well-designed

i still maintain (and will forever) that Atlas Sound is a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more satisfying project.

Really liking this, have replayed "Desire Lines" a couple times already this morning.

to what extent does this sound like microcastle?

sounds looser and less developed to me

is it rockin or slow and ballady

mix of both, a bit more ballady than rockin i think. ballads are better overall, maybe.

Much thicker than Microcastle, thicker textures, crunchy guitars, a little banjo, lots of additional percussion. Really love the production on this. Very wide-screen. You can tell playing all those open air festivals has influenced these songs, both in scope and sound.

It's going to be hard to knock Microcastle (and especially) Weird Era from my top of the list because that double record is like Deerhunter's White Album. But "Don't Cry", "Memory Boy", and "Basement Scene" really capture that 60s girl group inspired ambient punk feeling with some really wonderful songs that are some of the best the group has done.

Keep in mind when i say '60s girl group inspired ambient punk' i don't mean the superficial affectations that get taken up by every indie band in existence these days ("Be My Baby" drum beat, anyone?). It has more to do with songcraft for Deerhunter: the nostalgic melodies, the stomping beats, the chord structures.

"Coronado" is Bradford living out his Strokes dreams to great swaggering effect! And yes the last track is really awe-inspiring. Another great record from probably my favorite band of the 21st century.