Which is still GREAT EFFING MUSIC imo. Just not as strange or surprising as i was hoping for.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
what do they think about the band "the dear hunter"
― am0n, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
great name
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
They are probably just glad they did not name their band "The Dear Hunter"
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
Monomania song reminds me of early Telescopes. Probably had a lot to do with that wig.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 April 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
new bassist is Josh McKay from Macha
― GM, Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
that fallon performance was incredible
he kinda looked like a zombie John Cooper Clarke on the show
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
fucking lol at this interview http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/deerhunter-really-really-dislike-morrissey-and-the-smiths
"The Smiths wrote complaint slips that nobody read. Morrissey's influence is so crippling that it could even deteriorate the flower of modern creative thought. It's like a pungent death shroud over the future and the past."
― monotony, Friday, 5 April 2013 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
he's a great, GREAT interviewee.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Friday, 5 April 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
I've never liked anything I've heard by them, but that interview makes me want to try again. I tried again withThe Smiths a few months ago based on Bands you keep trying to like but can't get into . I tried them out again, but after a couple of days, it got all "Yep: nope."
― how's life, Friday, 5 April 2013 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
Ha that was fun
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 5 April 2013 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
The new album is wonderful, and probably a fine starting point, how's life.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Friday, 5 April 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
Never really got into this band very much but I like this a lot - it occurs to me this sounds quite a bit like Jay Reatard - they were friends were they not?
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 7 April 2013 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
They did a split 7" covering one another in 2008, and "He Would Have Laughed" is apparently an elegy for Jay.
― one way street, Sunday, 7 April 2013 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah this is cool. It's a great modern southern psych record. The 'punk' bits are only on a few songs in the beginning and I was getting a Strokes vibe from one track and a CCR vibe from another. The freakout ending to "Leather Jacket II" is really great. It's kind of weird, like a big mix of all previous DH stuff crammed into one album. Some parts of it literally sound like 2007-era home demos, some parts of it sound like Halcyon Digest-era songs. Feels like an album of really great songs that will grow on me more and more with every successive listen, but right now nothing stands out immensely.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
Here's a cool interview
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/7159
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
God, this album is great. Definitely feeling the CCR vibe on the Pensacola track.
― scubasteve, Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
lol morrissey
― am0n, Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
God, this album is great. Definitely feeling the CCR vibe on the Pensacola track.― scubasteve, Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:37 AM
how do u already have it
― am0n, Thursday, 11 April 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
oh it leaked
― am0n, Thursday, 11 April 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
3 -4 songs in - this is a much more direct - rock n' roll record. Like they are on different drugs for this one. Bradford Cox singing is more vehement and the whole sound is more convincing. Very enjoyable indeed.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 12 April 2013 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
I love how all of "Monomania" is just set up/window dressing for that climatic last minute
Need to give the whole time to gel as an album. Half of its amazing, half is pro forma - like this should be 3 or 5 eps
― Raymond Cummings, Sunday, 14 April 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, "THM." You foxy, uncouth minx, you.
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 15 April 2013 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
I am seriously crazy nuts about this whole album...
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Monday, 15 April 2013 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
Parts of this record remind me of the Pumpkins' more contemplative side...
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 15 April 2013 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
Best:
LJ IIPensacola THMMonomaniaNitebikePunk
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 15 April 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely.
The closing trio are just gangbusters.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Monday, 15 April 2013 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
"Back to Middle" has me wanting a video featuring Pundt and Cox dressed up as Laverne and Shirley for some reason
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 15 April 2013 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
"leather jacket ii" sounds like the oh sees
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 15 April 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
this is pretty good but i miss the arty less direct-r'n'r side of theirs
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
pitchfork article/interview from today:
Shortly before the band entered producer Nicolas Vernhes' Brooklyn-based Rare Book Room studio at the top of 2013, McKay was added as bassist, and Deerhunter's current incarnation bashed out Monomania over a few weeks, recording straight to Tascam eight-track recorders (hence the album's bruised, brutally lo-fi feel).
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 29 April 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
Nitebike sounds like Johnny Thunders?
― Hinklepicker, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.collapseboard.com/reviews/albums-reviews/deerhunter-monomania-4ad/#comment-390212
This review sums up how I feel about this record and band exactly.
― Hinklepicker, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
That review kinda says it, doesn't it?
About Deerhunter, specifically.
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
I was just thinking about this last night, how Cox works best in a self-curated compilation sense.
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
I played this for someone the other day, and while the highs are really good, it's the first album of theirs where a song comes on and I immediately want to skip to another.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Kind of amazed that lots of people think this is the best record yet.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
or their most consistent.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
Think i still like Microcastle/Weird Era way more than this
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
i'm with u
― am0n, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Microcastle was a bit overfussed. However Weird Era is a huge favorite for me.
― Evan, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
I thought halcyon digest was super consistent, but excited to hear this one
― anonanon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
It's streaming on NPR.
― Evan, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
thanks Evan
instant reaction upon first listen is that, lo fi production aside, it sounds really underwritten
― anonanon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
It's starting to seem like
Lockett Pundt is to Bradford Cox asTobin Sprout is to Robert Pollard
― Evan, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
i agree w/ both of those xposts. also, getting tired of Bradford's vocal schtick—weary, distorted, wasted, etc.
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 3 May 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
why can't they just bust out the sweeet shoogaze jams : /
― j., Friday, 3 May 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
this is the first deerhunter album that isn't doing it for me. much preferred the last atlas sound to it.
― akm, Friday, 3 May 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
I want to like this band - I listened to cryptograms, I bought a copy of Microcastle when it came out etc but nothing grabs me about them. I guess it's okay when I'm listening to it but an hour later I've completely forgotten everything about it.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 3 May 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
and now it sounds like they've made a BRMC record? lol