Deerhunter!

disgustingly sacred

sorry this was way too early for this

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"?

this album rules!!!!!

kinda has a subway sect vibe

i liked em ok before but this is so much more needed
there 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

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.

To me the sound is like if Ariel Pink made a tribute to Dylan and the Stones in the style of the Pixies.

sometimes the guitars even evoke the Voidoids, and that's heady territory for me

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kinda has a subway sect vibe

interviewed Bradford at his home in April, he had Subway Sect 7" sitting pride of place in his 7" rack

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

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.

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

electricsound otm and my favorite track on monomania is lockett's

this record is kinda punk

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.

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.

Former bassist was brilliant on Weird Era far as I'm concerned.

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.

sometimes the guitars even evoke the Voidoids, and that's heady territory for me

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.

I think it's pretty good. They're trying stuff out, songs are still compelling...

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.

Are the naysayers lo-fi/garage fans in general?

yeah, that's what i'm asking

What garage acts will you accept as sufficient to prove garage fluency?

I used to listen to Scared of Chaka in high school, does that count

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.

though i did like parts of cryptograms / fluorescent gray

used to listen to Scared of Chaka in high school, does that count

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disqualified on shins connection

Strokes are acceptable currency.

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

It's certainly miles from Cryptograms!

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.

I keep forgetting that one exists for some reason, and I like it very much.

I preferred the shoe gaze era but this is nice

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.

i guess i've been spoiled by cox's prolificacy but i'm kinda dying for some new atlas sound/deerhunter material

v ambient

https://soundcloud.com/geonorth/lotus-plaza-b-gemini-pt-1

bring back the 2007 blog era

get well soon boo

http://music.blog.ajc.com/2014/12/05/deerhunter-singer-bradford-cox-hit-by-car-in-atlanta/

i saw that, he looked pretty out of it!

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/

I'm really digging "Snakeskin" a lot!

this song is great!

wow, i really like it too. great bassline, extra credit for the drum break.

i really don't like the new song much, but i'm sure i'll come around. it sounds like another band's good song, just not this band. hard to explain.

there's a good interview up at pitchfork today: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9707-beyond-nostalgia-a-conversation-with-deerhunters-bradford-cox/

Pitchfork: I don’t think most people understand the seriousness of your car accident last year. How did that experience affect you?

BC: It erased all illusions for me. When I got hit by the car, I just felt no interest in anything else. I became very depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. A lot of people complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society. But I lost that manic urge that I used as fuel with Monomania.

Pitchfork: Where does all of that energy refocus itself?

BC: I just want safety. I would like to avoid physical pain and illness and mind my own business and have peace and quiet. The dog came along right around the same time and really changed how I felt about loneliness; I've never felt lonely since I've gotten a dog.

i guess that to some people that might sound like a really boring creative place, but i sympathize with that zone and i'm excited to hear the rest of the album (despite not being a huge fan of the snakeskin).

new album is great. very much the anti-monomania (which i also loved)

also, i thought the intro was spot on:

Wading through swampy Atlanta traffic en route to Bradford Cox’s home, I start to think about the first time I encountered Deerhunter face-to-face. It was at a 2007 show around the release of their breakthrough album Cryptograms in which the band essentially destroyed a tiny Brooklyn venue while Cox lurched about the stage in a dress. There was a hysterical, desperate energy—something queer in the truest sense of the word—that separated Deerhunter from all of their mid-oughts peers. Their music was equal parts noise and beauty, layers of reverb and feedback wrapped around pristine pop executions. As a frontman, Cox was both volatile and unnervingly frail. Back then, it looked as if he might collapse at any minute.

that aligns with my feeling when i saw them around the same time (guess i posted about the experience at the beginning of this thread). for a while i was always a little disappointed that deerhunter/atlas sound was straying away from that sound and performance style because it was so amazing. there were still remnants of it in Weird Era and the occasional song since, but it's been largely been replaced by something much more intricate than what i imagined could sound like back in 2007.

(also i'm super happy that they went back to the halcyon digest producer (ben allen), which was beautifully produced (i thought). monomania remains my least favorite thing they've done, and i think a lot of that just comes down to the production, and also a general ramshackle feeling that they didn't do enough takes. listening to it again this morning, i feel like opener "neon junkyard" would be a standout track on many of their other albums, but the production leaves it in limbo. it's too loud to be pretty but too thin to feel loud. it's weird. (still love T.H.M. though)

new song is cool, my streak of really liking every other deerhunter record may well continue

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