Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

New record, out September 28th on 4AD

http://pitchfork.com/news/39406-deerhunter-announce-new-album/

engineered by Ben Allen.

Here's hoping it's a throwback to the Cryptograms stuff, I didn't really care for the last album.

i'm bout it bout it but no way am i doing street teaming for them

2 mp3s is below min wage isnt it

I loved both Cryptograms and Microcastle (and the bonus disc of outtakes) ((and most of the Atlas Sound stuff I've heard)) (((and heck, even the first Deerhunter album wasn't half-bad!)))... so I'm pretty sure I'll like this no matter what.

i still kinda think the flourescent grey ep was the best thing they did

ilxor completely off the money itt, sorry dude

i still kinda think the flourescent grey ep was the best thing they did

me too

and as far as full lengths go, I'm pretty sure I've listened to the Atlas Sound LPs more than the Deerhunter ones.

man really? i never gave that last EP much of a chance i guess. really loved microcastle tho, so looking forward to this

You mean the Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP thing? I kinda forgot about that, I thought it was relatively weak at the time, I guess I should revisit it.

oh lol i got my EPs mixed up

This song is pretty great imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C79Q7MV4Fgo

All the build up to Microcastle, and the overexposure to the band around that time made that album feel really overly fussed over. Their insistence to put the "suite" in the middle of the album, the Black Lips babble in the one song, and a general vibe I get with the sequencing and composition of the rest of the songs is just: over-thought. I actually like it, but the much more quickly assembled Weird Era I feel is much better because it doesn't sound so slaved over, where they jammed out all of their great ideas instead of drew out a blueprint beforehand. Just how it sounds to me...

This is the part where I spent time to write a post that I thought a lot about to join in a conversation about music, and the thread dies until someone responds to something written above me. 67% chance. :D:D:D:D:D:D

HAHA Fuck it.

Weird Era's still my favorite! It's like the Deerhunter version of The White Album.

Don't feel bad dude, on a friday night your chances of a response are pretty low anyway, unless you're on the I'm Drunk thread!

fwiw, I pretty much agree with you, although the hype thing didn't really bug me because I'm not too plugged into the whole music blogosphere thing anymore.

I guess I got there just when people finished last night!

The hype doesn't bug me as much as how its huge anticipation seemed to force the band to be a bit more rigid in their creative process (not because they focused on "songs" more but the way they went about them), creating an overly thought and careful album.

i still kinda think the flourescent grey ep was the best thing they did
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me too

me three. best pop/rock sensibilities on display.

man! dudes! re-listen to Microcastle! it's better!

directions:

1) wave goodbye to the waves and the frozen shit that was in your heart
2) listen to Microcastle on repeat

Microcastlol

did not even realize that was supposed to be a suite on microcastle.. what tracks are included in this?

p.s. little kids mightve been my most listened to track of 08

# "Microcastle" - 3:40
# "Calvary Scars" - 1:37
# "Green Jacket" - 2:09
# "Activa" - 1:49

That's the suite iirc?

Whatever happened to Whitney, btw? :-(

Yeah thats the suite.

love the suite

a bunch of microcastle is really boring

I don't the title track is included in the suite.

Believe, that is.

i had no idea there was a suite

i don't think they're 'boring' but they're very textural: i mean, i've been meaning to listen to them again, and now i'm listening to them again, and i guess i've not listened to microcastle/weird era more than, say, ten times, but i really know very little of it; i sort of vaguely place the odd guitar line or sound effect or whatever; i know there's a jammy/twinkly bit coming at the end of weird era cont.; i can sort of vaguely place hooks for one or two songs if i look at the titles, but i will think that three or four tracks are 'nothing ever happened' before i actually get to 'nothing ever happened'

i don't know what part of the record it is, but the really slow stuff that sounds like ballads from the 50s is rough

i really liked his last album, it was good stuff. i'm looking forward to some new stuff.

http://halcyondigest.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32dLVXMzgTg

^^ one of the best Deerhunter songs imo

saw them summer 2007 at the ICA in Boston -- awesome venue right by the water. they were fantastic

go to http://halcyondigest.com/revival/ type in the pw 'tapereel' and youll be taken to a supremely annoying microsite where you can click on the tape reel and download their new single

warning the site will play music automatically and the zip contains 30 megs of worthless album art

http://promo.4ad.com/halcyondigest/revival.zip

Loving the ambient stuff they're throwing out here. The sad piano bit at the end of Primitive 3D is wonderful. Love the production too, it's really crisp!

Really nice video for new track Helicopter. Just click on the article in link: http://halcyondigest.com/helicopter/ ....not a massive fan, but this song is beautiful.

that takes like an hour to load and your username makes no sense

You must have super slow internet. My username is roughly half as ridiculous & ambiguous as most of the others, yours included . Don't really care if you get it or not.

:3

Played instantaneously for me. I dig the song, too!

My username is roughly half as ridiculous & ambiguous as most of the others, yours included

Mine included, too?

omg the board has become sentient

which are his tracks on MCastle? i have a vinyl copy--the single lp version--and there's no info at all. bought it used, maybe there's a missing insert or something...

i know "agoraphobia" for one

this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is a hell of a song.

unsettling, too.

"Neither of Us, Uncertainly" is the other

ugh saxophone on 'coronado'

― am0n, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 5:33 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

lol it took some time but i really like this song, including the sax.

"He had some of the best tunes on microcastle, too. Adam, have you heard the new lotus plaza? I didn't even know it was in the works! Is it on kranky again?"

I played bass in a live LP lineup almost a year ago and we learned 10 or so songs, two of which were Desire Lines and Fountain Stairs, and the rest of them were on that level and some of them even better. There's also this song he did w his girlfriend singing called "Nice Weekend", that was some incredible epic 3 minute shoegaze pop that i really hope comes out on something...

I really like the sax on Coronado, too.

Ace remix of "Helicopter" by Diplo & Lunice. Really like this video too, with footage from Andrey Stvolinsky's Slow Moscow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD1B6FDuunQ

It looks better on Vimeo, but not sure if that'll embed so:

Helicopter remix video prettier

I listened to this today because I heard Helicopter and liked the main hook, but overall this is some seriously weak songwriting.

lol it took some time but i really like this song, including the sax.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:16 PM

its grown on me. good album for walking in the snow

http://stereogum.com/645172/expanded-deerhunter-do-letterman/video/

Check me out on keys there, wearing a cape in Sky Saxon/Beefheart tribute!

nice! u gave paul shaffer an acid flashback

paulol

Paul Shaffer is my hero. At load out there was a beautiful Vox Continental with the black keys just like the Animals used to use. After soundcheck he was really into that Farfisa I played and I complimented him on the Vox. He said he owned several. The man has taste!

Here's a bunch of photos i took from the show:
http://rabbitscgi.blogspot.com/2011/02/deerhunter-on-late-show-exclusive.html

He said he owned several.

people who have worked out how to live

Sounds like Adam Bruneau has figured out how to live too!

yes!

Just chillin', playing the keys for Deerhunter and impressin' Paul Shaffer. No big deal.

Totally agree with you guys, i had the best week ever!

Bradford found us on Hipsterrunoff the next day I felt like I had won a grammy.

awesome Adam! I knew you had played with (recorded with) LP in the past but didn't know you jammed with deerhunter too!

great job not shitting your pants onstage, if that was me up there i'd be wearing extra layers

Yeah, was kinda an OG Deerhunter member. Quit to go to school. Now I have a degree and no job LOL. So rad of Bradford to invite me along for this!

I can't believe I wasn't insanely nervous, it really helped that I was playing again with my friends for the first time in like 6 or 7 years! Also that I had some irish coffees backstage =)

Also that I had some irish coffees backstage =)

i must once again commend you for not shitting your pants onstage!

was the OG member stuff back before the debut turn it up faggot release, i guess?

I think first practice was when they just got that record back from the press. I still like that one a whole lot. Played 2nd drums at the time, it was Brad's idea. I learned "Lake Somerset" and probably some others off "Cryptograms", but they didn't have names yet. Been playing with him and Cole since before either bands tho. We met 10 years ago! They are the oldest friends I still play music with.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls9l59rkq11qb4lmho1_500.jpg

not sure why but bradford performed as joey ramone with mgmt who were performing lucifer sam last night on fallon. looks great though.

Fairly convincing, imho.

Still love the titular album for this thread. Was my #2 of 2010 and just revisited it last night, still very much deserving of that spot.

Also, MGMT's "Congratulation" was way underrated.

http://pitchfork.com/news/45347-deerhunters-lockett-pundt-announces-new-lotus-plaza-album-spooky-action-at-a-distance/

It's ok.

It seems like people love Deerhunter/Atlas Sound more and more as time goes on but to me it's all getting more moving and less emotionally involving as it goes

That should be "LESS moving"

Evan was all kinds of OTM at the top of this thread

i've only heard the song streaming on pitchfork, but it's awesome, favorite lotus plaza thing i've heard, stoked for the rest of the album. and i like deerhunter/atlas sound more and more as time goes on! :)

parallax, in particular, really rewards repeated listening. it didn't get any love here on the year end poll (which i didn't vote on because i don't know anything about music obv) but it was like top 3 2011 for me.

New LP LP (heh) is different than the debut, that's for sure. Still sorting out my feelings about it but it trumPs Parallax (the first AS LP I didn't "get").

anxious to hear this LP lp, as 'Desire Lines' is my favorite track on Halcyon Digest.

Ok damn

LP LP suddenly growing on me, big time

(sometime the act of listening to something while walking tge dog throws things into focus)

parallax, in particular, really rewards repeated listening. it didn't get any love here on the year end poll (which i didn't vote on because i don't know anything about music obv) but it was like top 3 2011 for me.

It was my #5, I really loved it.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz0izaXxdI1qknlyfo1_500.jpg

ok, this new Lotus Plaza lp is great; i like it much more than his previous.

yes, it is awesome.

I put "Fluorescent Grey" on a Top 10 a few years ago, but with a little nudge from Christgau, I'm just getting around to this album and the new one now. I'll need more time with Monomania, but Halcyon Digest I love immediately. Especially the last three songs--even looked up the lyrics for "He Would Have Laughed," something I never do. Certain lines seemed a little too close to home...but I guess he's writing about some invented character, not himself.

he's writing abt jay reatard iirc

Okay--don't know anything about him beyond that he died. I initially interpreted the lyrics literally and had the weird idea that he was writing about Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood. Anyway, sobering song for anyone drifting through middle age.

hah, i'll have to relisten with plainview in mind.

still love this record, monomania is not my thing at all but i can live with liking every other deerhunter album.

I've only heard the latest three Deerhunter albums and this is the only one I've really enjoyed. I should probably get round to hearing Cryptograms at some point.

I'm a late convert to this album but I really do love it. One of the few recent albums I can find that really scratches the same itch as the late-90s psyche classics like Dusk at Cubist Castle or The Soft Bulletin or Arnold's Hillside.

Well, I'm yet to be converted! What am I missing?

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/10/08/deerhunter-halcyon-digest-round-72-toms-selection/