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
Weird Era is where it's at. Best thing they've done.
― Evan, Friday, 3 May 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
I am liking this less the more I listen - although I still find this more listenable than previous efforts which sounded like hazy blah to me.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 4 May 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
Z S, can you just email me directly? I keep trying to respond to yr ILX mail and every time I enter the word code the shit doesn't work
Elisionbebop
It's a gmail address
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 4 May 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
I'm returning from a camping trip right now but I'll be home later tonight! Btw I think I included my email address in the ilx mail message? Maybe not, I can't remember.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Sunday, 5 May 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
hinklepink otm, though i'm still in the "wow, this is great!" phase. i've liked stray tracks in the past, but this is the first deerhunter album to really grab me. did like that one cover with the deers having cock sex.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Sunday, 5 May 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
"Blue Agent" sort of feels like it hits that "Flourescent Grey"-era mysteriousness. That one acoustic song is super Kurt Vile, which is cool, cos it's good, and Kurt Vile is a rad dude.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 5 May 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
That one acoustic song is super Kurt Vile, which is cool, cos it's good, and Kurt Vile is a rad dude.
"nitebike" - kv's def in there, but the first thing it suggested to me was acoustic johnny thunders.
last three tracks are stunning! "monomania" is maybe the best heads-down rock song i've heard so far this year, all the more so for the emotional heft. i got everything maxed and it still isn't loud enough. "monomonomania monomonomania" part could go for another half hour and still i'd be happy.
a lot of complaining abt the turn to garage rock, but i get the feeling that the whole album is a presented as a tribute to misspent youth, triumphant nostalgia for past misery. that's mostly a product of "punk (la vie anterieure)", but i'm trying it on as a frame.
"pensacola" is only track i'm not feeling, too familiar, not enough energy to pull it off.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 6 May 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
Contrnderizer mostly OTM
With "Pensecola" a weird thing happens - for the first 30 seconds I'm like ugh, then it wins me over
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 6 May 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
maybe i'll get there, i've only listened twice
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 6 May 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
"monomania" is maybe the best heads-down rock song i've heard so far this year, all the more so for the emotional heft.
^^^^ this.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Monday, 6 May 2013 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
couldn't tell he was saying "monomania" at the end of "monomania" what does that mean
― Andrew Sandwich, Thursday, 9 May 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
if we're going to do rock again these guys might be sensitive