when everyone laughs with tom eventually
― Andrew Sandwich, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
pout
"PUNCH" you
lol
― Andrew Sandwich, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
nobody cares abhout tom
disgustingly sacred
― Andrew Sandwich, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
sorry this was way too early for this
― Andrew Sandwich, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
hah huh?
A. Sandwich what do you think of "Pensacola" does it make you want to rock out like you were listening to "96 Tears"?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
this album rules!!!!!
kinda has a subway sect vibe
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
i liked em ok before but this is so much more neededthere are so many kind reverb rock post shoegaze dudes out there that are good at it but there's not that many real fucked up rackety twee punk bands
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, this one is great. Wasn't much of a fan of their dopey-sounding shoegazery stuff either, but I've been listening to this a lot.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
To me the sound is like if Ariel Pink made a tribute to Dylan and the Stones in the style of the Pixies.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
sometimes the guitars even evoke the Voidoids, and that's heady territory for me
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
last 5 posts OTM
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
interviewed Bradford at his home in April, he had Subway Sect 7" sitting pride of place in his 7" rack
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
definitely feeling alone imo of thinking this record is one of the weakest things that have come out of this group of people. after the previous album and the fantastic last lotus plaza album it feels really half assed
― peel hat-trick narrows (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
upon 3 listens, i'm still a bit underwhelmed. i like the idea of what they're trying to do but not much has stuck with me yet. still, i've had similar initial feelings about other things that they've done, and i've always come around, so i'll give it some more chances.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
i like how half assed and sloppy it is!
but like i said i like cryptograms/flourescent grey pretty well but i didn't dig em that much
i think this is more for ppl that don't like deerhunter all that much
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
electricsound otm and my favorite track on monomania is lockett's
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
this record is kinda punk
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
i found nothing to latch onto here, aside from the gnarly outro of 'monomania' (the track). i second the suggestions that it is half-assed.
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
it's too early to say, but i wonder how much the personnel changes (McKay and Broyles in, former bassist Josh Fauver out) affected the sound and approach to Monomania.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
Former bassist was brilliant on Weird Era far as I'm concerned.
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah this is definitely half-assed, but I kind of feel like that's the point? Not to excuse a half-ass record by one of my favorite bands going right now, since I'm feeling a little underwhelmed by it too, but I think this feels to me like some sort of purge for Bradford in a way. Like this kind of ties into the American thing he was hinting on with the last Atlas Sound record (meaning American music, rockabilly crooner sort of thing). Though this one jumps the focus up to a sort of American punk and garage rock vibe. I don't know, I've always felt like his music has, for the most part, been a nice melding of vibes and ideas but this and Parallax were both more explicit about "the past" (i.e. the pompadour and the old-time microphone on the cover of the last one). I guess this just feels really intentional in its half-assedness and, even if it doesn't succeed as one of their better "ALBUMS", I think it sort of serves a purpose in his overall discography.
Please excuse the rambling, I've been at work for about 15 hours today and am running on fuuuuumes.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
Voidoids is an apt comparison I think, cos it also has that snot-nosed Dylan in a leather jacket with a shit-eating grin vibe to it that was kicking around in the later half of the 70s that Richard Hell is as good an example of as anyone else.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's pretty good. They're trying stuff out, songs are still compelling...
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
this may be a shitty thing to say, but i wonder how well-equipped some of the naysayers are to fairly & honestly evaluate a loosened-up garage rock record. cuz that's basically what this is, and within that ballpark, it's real damn good, imo.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
Are the naysayers lo-fi/garage fans in general?
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that's what i'm asking
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
What garage acts will you accept as sufficient to prove garage fluency?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
I used to listen to Scared of Chaka in high school, does that count
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
sure, everybody gets to decide for themselves. i freely admit that i'm not a huge fan of blurry shoegaze in general, and that perhaps disinclined me to spend much time getting to know previous deerhunters.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
though i did like parts of cryptograms / fluorescent gray
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
used to listen to Scared of Chaka in high school, does that count
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
disqualified on shins connection
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Strokes are acceptable currency.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
srsly i don't think you need to be "qualified" or anything but my point above was that this might be a deerhunter record for ppl that weren't big deerhunter fans
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
It's certainly miles from Cryptograms!
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
haha, I was actually going to say that it's closest to the aggression of the songs on Cryptograms (particularly the non-instrumentals on the first side of Cryptograms). To me it seems furthest away from the more sleepy vibes (I mean that in a positive way!) of Halcyon Digest.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
I keep forgetting that one exists for some reason, and I like it very much.
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
I preferred the shoe gaze era but this is nice
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Their (his?) other records never really hit me, but this one is hot.Great vocals... more variety of mood than I expected... superbly executed sloppiness.
Some of the lyrics are a bit predictable/goofy, but there's an awful lot to like here.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 8 June 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
i guess i've been spoiled by cox's prolificacy but i'm kinda dying for some new atlas sound/deerhunter material
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
v ambient
https://soundcloud.com/geonorth/lotus-plaza-b-gemini-pt-1
― am0n, Friday, 5 September 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
bring back the 2007 blog era
― markers, Friday, 5 September 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
get well soon boo
http://music.blog.ajc.com/2014/12/05/deerhunter-singer-bradford-cox-hit-by-car-in-atlanta/
― example (crüt), Friday, 5 December 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
i saw that, he looked pretty out of it!
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 December 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
Bradford is spinning some excellent tunes on the radio right now:
http://1690wmlb.com/
and there's a new track:
http://www.stereogum.com/1824332/deerhunter-snakeskin/mp3s/
― Captain Maximus, Monday, 17 August 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm really digging "Snakeskin" a lot!
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 17 August 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
this song is great!
― mizzell, Monday, 17 August 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
wow, i really like it too. great bassline, extra credit for the drum break.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 20 August 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link