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
― du mein bestie (micarl), Friday, 17 September 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
w00
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Friday, 17 September 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is great! will buy this in two weeks time.
― Bee OK, Friday, 17 September 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Friday, 17 September 2010 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 18 September 2010 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
streaming http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129866612
― This Mortal Kombat (diamonddave85), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 20 September 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't find time for the "old" new releases
so sad, but so true
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
"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."
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 20 September 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
part of the key for me with this band is how brutally direct they are with their lyrics, e.g., Agoraphobia and Fluorescent Grey.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 20 September 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― oscar, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― am0n, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― skip, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa dude
And I don't even like the hold steady
― Socrates, you asshole (Z S), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
u mad?
― DIOHEAD (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd be inclined to agree with the EP bit...
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Hold Steady bedroom music?
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Still have to listen to the new one.
Listen to it Evan, you possibly will love it.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
shut up dickface
― am0n, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
not all messages are displayed in this topic :(
― mittens reduxeo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
:)
― am0n, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
stop laughing at me
― mittens reduxeo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
The album's a little low-key, isn't it? Was hoping for another "Nothing Ever Happens."
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
replace coronado w/ b-side primitive 3-d http://www.wpclipart.com/smiley/tiny/tiny_smiley_shades.png
― atlas ¯\(°_o)/¯ed (am0n), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
of interest: 9.2.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 27 September 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to their previous 2 albums i think i have their formula figured out:
1. mumble some random words2. test out some guitar pedals3. don't write anything memorable
― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Monday, 27 September 2010 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
of interest: 9.2.― Daniel, Esq., Monday, September 27, 2010 1:27 AM
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, September 27, 2010 1:27 AM
dope -- will be picking this up on Tuesday for sure
― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, new No Age out Tuesday and then Marnie Stern next week
― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
class of 2007!!!
― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
A+
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 27 September 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
picked this up. the liner notes fold out into a really cool, well-design mini-poster sort of deal
― markers, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
*well-designed
i still maintain (and will forever) that Atlas Sound is a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more satisfying project.
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Really liking this, have replayed "Desire Lines" a couple times already this morning.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
to what extent does this sound like microcastle?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds looser and less developed to me
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
is it rockin or slow and ballady
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
mix of both, a bit more ballady than rockin i think. ballads are better overall, maybe.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Deerhunter (for me) have this weird thing where it takes like a year or two for me to really grasp/dig whatever album EP is in question - like, Microcastle/Weird Era didn't start making real intuitive sense until just recently.
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Microcastle blah blah whatever... does anyone else still like Cryptograms best??
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, which is why i'm asking these questions
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link