Here's hoping it's a throwback to the Cryptograms stuff, I didn't really care for the last album.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 9 July 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm bout it bout it but no way am i doing street teaming for them
― am0n, Friday, 9 July 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
2 mp3s is below min wage isnt it
― am0n, Friday, 9 July 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― stuff that's what it is (bernard snowy), Friday, 9 July 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i still kinda think the flourescent grey ep was the best thing they did
― peel ya frap back (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 July 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ilxor completely off the money itt, sorry dude
― ksh, Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
me too
― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
and as far as full lengths go, I'm pretty sure I've listened to the Atlas Sound LPs more than the Deerhunter ones.
― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
man really? i never gave that last EP much of a chance i guess. really loved microcastle tho, so looking forward to this
― we hold these goofs to be self-permabanned (k3vin k.), Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
oh lol i got my EPs mixed up
― we hold these goofs to be self-permabanned (k3vin k.), Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
This song is pretty great imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C79Q7MV4Fgo
― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― Evan, Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Evan, Saturday, 10 July 2010 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
HAHA Fuck it.
― Evan, Saturday, 10 July 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Weird Era's still my favorite! It's like the Deerhunter version of The White Album.
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 10 July 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i still kinda think the flourescent grey ep was the best thing they did______________________________me too
me three. best pop/rock sensibilities on display.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
man! dudes! re-listen to Microcastle! it's better!
― ksh, Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
directions:
1) wave goodbye to the waves and the frozen shit that was in your heart2) listen to Microcastle on repeat
― ksh, Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Microcastlol
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
did not even realize that was supposed to be a suite on microcastle.. what tracks are included in this?
― ♥ ᶫᵧᵒₒᵛᵤᵉ ♥ (LOLK), Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
p.s. little kids mightve been my most listened to track of 08
― ♥ ᶫᵧᵒₒᵛᵤᵉ ♥ (LOLK), Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
# "Microcastle" - 3:40# "Calvary Scars" - 1:37# "Green Jacket" - 2:09# "Activa" - 1:49
That's the suite iirc?
― ksh, Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Whatever happened to Whitney, btw? :-(
Yeah thats the suite.
― Evan, Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
love the suite
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
a bunch of microcastle is really boring
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't the title track is included in the suite.
― scarfs, Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Believe, that is.
― scarfs, Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i had no idea there was a suite
― thomp, Saturday, 10 July 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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'
― thomp, Saturday, 10 July 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 10 July 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked his last album, it was good stuff. i'm looking forward to some new stuff.
― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Sunday, 11 July 2010 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://halcyondigest.com/
― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Sunday, 11 July 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32dLVXMzgTg
^^ one of the best Deerhunter songs imo
― ksh, Sunday, 11 July 2010 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
saw them summer 2007 at the ICA in Boston -- awesome venue right by the water. they were fantastic
― ksh, Sunday, 11 July 2010 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― OK (LOLK), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://promo.4ad.com/halcyondigest/revival.zip
― du mein bestie (micarl), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
that takes like an hour to load and your username makes no sense
― am0n, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
:3
― am0n, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Played instantaneously for me. I dig the song, too!
― Z S, Friday, 3 September 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
My username is roughly half as ridiculous & ambiguous as most of the others, yours included
Mine included, too?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 3 September 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
omg the board has become sentient
― markers, Friday, 3 September 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Vid on ye'tube
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Deerhunter have to be one of the only indie bands to still be worth a look I sware.
Really looking forward to the new album.
― jimitheexploder, Friday, 3 September 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I basically agree with you; I increasingly have less time for most indie rock bands in my life.
― markers, Friday, 3 September 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is a hell of a song.
unsettling, too.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 29 October 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"Neither of Us, Uncertainly" is the other
― Z S, Friday, 29 October 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"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...
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I really like the sax on Coronado, too.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Ace remix of "Helicopter" by Diplo & Lunice. Really like this video too, with footage from Andrey Stvolinsky's Slow Moscowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD1B6FDuunQ
It looks better on Vimeo, but not sure if that'll embed so:
Helicopter remix video prettier
― Bill A, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I listened to this today because I heard Helicopter and liked the main hook, but overall this is some seriously weak songwriting.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:16 PM
its grown on me. good album for walking in the snow
― am0n, Monday, 31 January 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://stereogum.com/645172/expanded-deerhunter-do-letterman/video/
Check me out on keys there, wearing a cape in Sky Saxon/Beefheart tribute!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
nice! u gave paul shaffer an acid flashback
― Dr Frogbs (am0n), Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
paulol
― on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 February 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's a bunch of photos i took from the show:http://rabbitscgi.blogspot.com/2011/02/deerhunter-on-late-show-exclusive.html
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
He said he owned several.
people who have worked out how to live
― racing up the fuck charts (electricsound), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Sounds like Adam Bruneau has figured out how to live too!
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yes!
― racing up the fuck charts (electricsound), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Just chillin', playing the keys for Deerhunter and impressin' Paul Shaffer. No big deal.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally agree with you guys, i had the best week ever!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Z S, Friday, 25 February 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
great job not shitting your pants onstage, if that was me up there i'd be wearing extra layers
― Z S, Friday, 25 February 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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 =)
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 February 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Also that I had some irish coffees backstage =)
i must once again commend you for not shitting your pants onstage!
― Z S, Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
was the OG member stuff back before the debut turn it up faggot release, i guess?
― Z S, Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 February 2011 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Also, MGMT's "Congratulation" was way underrated.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/45347-deerhunters-lockett-pundt-announces-new-lotus-plaza-album-spooky-action-at-a-distance/
― am0n, Saturday, 11 February 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
It's ok.
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
That should be "LESS moving"
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
Evan was all kinds of OTM at the top of this thread
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
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! :)
― Z S, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Z S, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
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").
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
anxious to hear this LP lp, as 'Desire Lines' is my favorite track on Halcyon Digest.
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:46 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
It was my #5, I really loved it.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 11 February 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
yes, it is awesome.
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
he's writing abt jay reatard iirc
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a duiving caTCH, a stuolllen bayeeeess (jamescobo), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Well, I'm yet to be converted! What am I missing?
http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/10/08/deerhunter-halcyon-digest-round-72-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link