Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

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

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.

Deerhunter have to be one of the only indie bands to still be worth a look I sware.

I basically agree with you; I increasingly have less time for most indie rock bands in my life.

this song is a jam

Recently I've been playing the hell out of the Weird Era Cont. alternate album thing, especially Dot Gain and Vox Celeste, the latter of which Is sorta becoming one of my favorite songs evah

I should listen to that again -- I mostly just played Microcastle again & again (it's the perfect length, too), and didn't listen to WEC much.

"operation" off 'weird era contd' is a great little jam too

microcastle was great. anxious to hear the new disc. deerhunter has an epic sound -- and an edge -- that's too often missing in indie rock.

feeling "helicopter"

Holy shit. This is fucking great. Like, really. It's out there.

really? very excited for this disc -- maybe more than any disc this year.

YES, MORE EXCITED FOR THIS THAN FOR THE KATY PERRY DISC.

Yeah man. If so inclined, check Magiska. It's something else, really.

Did I menetion how wonderful this is?

MENETION?!?!? Mention. Mention.

heard 'desire lines' and now i'm VERY excited for the album

I haven't heard this yet, but I've received a few different messages from friends today saying "omgomgomg deerhunter" and I don't normally get any texts whatsoever concerning the greatness of leaked albums, so I'm assuming it's really good!

listened to the Microcastle and Fluorescent Grey this morning, and was reminded of how good they are.

both of those are excellent

man, P4k news used to be all Deerhunter blog omg omg poop omg in 2007

~~~indie rock nostalgia~~~

this year's bitter orcas?

yup this is gr8

gonna wait until it goes on sale but \(^o^)/ \(^o^)/ \(^o^)/ @ the positive reviews itt

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/