Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

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/