Deerhunter!

i don't really like these first two songs at all. :(

I think the chorus is pretty on "Breaker". But yeah overall it could be coming from any indie band.

haha, i thought you liked it!

but yeah, both of the songs i've heard are swinging toward the generic side of the pendulum.

I do! Wasn't taking that back. Just admitting that it's indeed more generic.

"Snakeskin" hit me hard tho, something about the funkiness and lyrical intrigue. This is just falling flat. Pretty, maybe, but flat.

I'll suspend judgment until I can hear the whole thing; both Parallax and Monomania had tracks that were somewhat forgettable taken singly, but effective in an album setting.

Quite the opposite for me, I didn't really connect with "Snakeskin" but immediately love "Breaker." I find it sweet that after so many years of being in a band together Bradford and Lockett are still so close that they've decided to merge their voices and faces for a song. Also the transitions back to the verses are lovely.

Do I hear "Radio Gaga" in the drumbeat of "Breaker"?

theres tour dates for winter w/ atlas sound opening :B

I get Lansing-Dreiden vibes from these new songs. I like them all together.

"these new songs" = new album songs on spotify

I got my copy on Tuesday thanks to the friendly dudes at my local brick and mortar but I haven't listened to it yet ...

First half of this is lovely, and then the second is much more lacklustre save from "Snakeskin".

I'm not hearing what the Pitchfork review does. A lot of this is pleasant tunefulness.

The Pitchfork review agrees that it is a tuneful record. Or do you just mean that it's not as good as Pitchfork's rating?

pleasant tunefulness could be your life

at least so far seems like his most conventional album and that may be a good thing

New album is slaying

Hoping my initial reaction of "pleasant" will grow into "slaying"

I like this a ton, much more than the last one, which I thought was a slog after Halcyon Digest (which I love and is still my favorite).

"breaker" is a masterful song

it is super duper

i will try to channel a little league dad and say they are "in the zone" there

Yeah "Breaker" is really good.

Trying to channel Beach House on "Take Care" imo

bradford cox goes full on adrian belew-era david bowie here:

http://pitchfork.com/news/61992-deerhunter-perform-extended-version-of-snakeskin-and-more-fading-frontier-tracks-on-kcrw/

from the interviews and stuff over the last year or so (since his accident) i had the impression that he was stabilizing a bit but he seems genuinely unhinged here

That's kind of weird to watch
Live takes make me want to listen to the album again
Halcyon digest is still great

i wouldn't count myself as a fan but that footage is wicked - he is very compelling - great to see them so loose and noisy

So I guess the blonde hair in the last couple of videos was a wig. He looks like Glenn Morrow in that performance.

best band

Really like the new album but "leather and wood" is a momentum killer.

not sure why dude is so obsessed with kandinsky. who's to say what "now" is -- seems kind of self-serving. i can appreciate penderecki with or without historizing him same as michaelangelo or george eliot. but whatever, just glad someone as beyond talented as ATLAS SOUND isn't totally dumbing himself down. new album is killer

the opener and duplex planet are great. looking forward to atlas sound live

I like this new record a lot.

m2

yeah, i agree with a bunch of people on this thread. new album is great, loving it.

http://pitchfork.com/news/62421-bradford-cox-details-alleged-aggressive-encounter-with-billy-corgan-and-smashing-pumpkins-crew/

whoa

"The encounter didn't happen. We have video of it."

I mean, in the best possible way Brad is an unreliable narrator, but Corgan *did send his bodyguards after Everett True in the 90s following a bad review.

Love the italics in

you were invited to open for the Smashing Pumpkins.

Damn.

you were invited to open for the Smashing Pumpkins.

they played snippets of "today" in philly last night amid another 20+ minute "rap" about people recording his stage banter. hope dude isn't turning into mark kozelek

bradford's letter was nice, and his point about banter is pretty otm

can i sue billy cogan bc the world is not a vampire?

Billy saw Twilight coming from a mile away

LOL @ bradford slinking away with his tail between his legs

Don't see it as slinking away. See it as him suggesting the whole thing is pretty ridiculous (as is most pitchfork live-show related controversy) and then offering up an eloquent retraction, ie why make it any worse? Kozelek would in turn piss on it further, I feel.

You might remember that back at the same year of this "incident" p4k was writing about how Bradford was blogging about his poop or something. If that says anything.

Funny how Trollzelek is so legendary at making these things worse he has already been brought up in two entirely different ways itt for no other reason.

if Bradford's story had any truth behind it, he'd stick to it and demand SP release the video tape. As it stands, his story is slanderous and I'm glad he quickly apologized for it.

i like the part where he's led to the backroom with corgan alone is his chair like Brando in Apocalypse Now