Deerhunter!

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.

Kind of amazed that lots of people think this is the best record yet.

or their most consistent.

Think i still like Microcastle/Weird Era way more than this

i'm with u

Microcastle was a bit overfussed. However Weird Era is a huge favorite for me.

I thought halcyon digest was super consistent, but excited to hear this one

It's streaming on NPR.

thanks Evan

instant reaction upon first listen is that, lo fi production aside, it sounds really underwritten

It's starting to seem like

Lockett Pundt is to Bradford Cox as
Tobin Sprout is to Robert Pollard

i agree w/ both of those xposts. also, getting tired of Bradford's vocal schtick—weary, distorted, wasted, etc.

why can't they just bust out the sweeet shoogaze jams : /

this is the first deerhunter album that isn't doing it for me. much preferred the last atlas sound to it.

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.

and now it sounds like they've made a BRMC record? lol

Weird Era is where it's at. Best thing they've done.

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.

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Contrnderizer mostly OTM

With "Pensecola" a weird thing happens - for the first 30 seconds I'm like ugh, then it wins me over

maybe i'll get there, i've only listened twice

"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.

couldn't tell he was saying "monomania" at the end of "monomania" what does that mean

if we're going to do rock again these guys might be sensitive

said with love

and hate of course

*too

idk seems like the same mistake Animal Collective made

i like this album a lot. people are overstating the "rock album" thing, it's just a slightly grittier deerhunter album

One of those bands I've heard a bunch, seen live a couple of times and still can't recall a single note of. I think I fell asleep the last time they played, which didn't help.

been meaning to revisit older stuff after this tbh

would be glad to eventually argue them over sonic youth one day

cryptograms

^ a type of ograms

I like the title track but it does run on a bit.

remember a single of theirs off p4k infinite playlist or whatever early

title track kewl

"Finding the fluorescence in the junk
By night illuminates the day
Finding ancient language in the blood
Fading a little more each day"

l0l do you guys have tumblers?

just not sure if "we" need this

holy shit i hate myself

don't hate yourself just stop posting for a bit eh?

Or consolidate a little

would feel better

if I was talking to you about rock that mattered

I mean Hi

nice to meet you