dan deacon

why is it that when three dudes from Baltimore end up doing something similar, they have to make up a genre name for it?

sorry, one dude

i'm thinking about going to his show 2nite with the schwartzenegger vid. Anyone seen this?

wait, what is the genre name for it?

future shock

wtf, i thought i read most of his press and i've never even heard that phrase before, but google says you're right, bunch of other references. some stupid bullshit, but for what it's worth, there are a ton of guys in Baltimore working more or less the same aesthetic, not just him and one or two other dudes.

new album - "Bromst" - does ilx have an opinion on this guy?

stinks

^here, here.

A Baltimore musician helping to revitalize and reinvent his city's music scene

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No love for Bromst? I think it's excellent, a huge leap forward from Spiderman of the Rings.

chris in belfast, wats the craic? so to speak... aaron from belfast

Ha, how's it going Aaron? Do you read AU by any chance? I interviewed Dan Deacon for the new issue, look out for it next week.

yez indeed man, always. gotsta stay in the loop haha. Im runnin nites in the su at the art college,
starting up on march 19th, called ataxia, its gonna be a rite mashup haha. ur more than welcome mate

No way does this stink! It's really, really good! It's like a whacky turned Animal Collective/Panda Bear on LSD, most importantly adding a much needed overdose injection of Steve Reich-like minimalism. The chant-like toddler music somehow always seems to flow/derail into Reichian symbiotics and minimalistic terrain.

reichian symbiotics?

Sorry, what I meant is Reichian esthetic

i though you meant the small steve reichs that attach themselves to the gills of sharks

Well, there's that as well, obviously

i look forward to going to his show and not dancing

It's like a whacky turned Animal Collective

yeah i had this thought too. i didnt like the animal collective-like direction he took in some songs...it's really not an aesthetic i can stomach too often.

ya after listening a few times it feels like something that will polarize roughly along the same lines as MPP. Personally I love the way he vomits out these rainbow-colored chants.

this album has too many cunting songs on it

Ohhhh come now. These criticisms are way nitpicky.

i liked it... yeah i made the Animal Collective connection too - very similar in texture to Merriweather Post Pavilion. It is a really good album, but it's very very long and I can't imagine listening to it all the way through more than twice for that reason. One track at a time is enough really.

^^^

Parts of this make me think he has a great album in him

(this isn't it)

Why is this dude even still around?

Pitchfork

This is kinda the worst music of the past fifteen years of 'indie.' What a bunch of bullshit.

Look at his wacky clothes and silly glasses!

downloading Bromst now, sounds interesting...

check out "snookered." it sounds like early solo eno, almost like dd convinced him to guest

This is kinda the worst music of the past fifteen years of 'indie.' What a bunch of bullshit.

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Look at his wacky clothes and silly glasses!

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Ha, OTM!

ha, such total bullshit

thought Bromst was interesting but perhaps a little stiff

saw him live with his new 12 piece band on saturday night -- do not miss the live show. 3 drummers = if it wasn't on par with the Boredoms '99 shows when they were playing VCN, that's the only other concert that came to mind on the way home -- that good.

(haven't heard Spiderman / never saw his iPod-era live shows which I imagine were easier to dislike -- this too, still exhaustingly day-glo, but with a 12 piece band, there's real energy)

live only imo

I really like this album!

I can see what people mean with the MPP comparisons but I'd say it's more like Panda Bear X Battles X Trans Am.

I've never been all that enamored with this dude, but "Surprise Stefani" is incredible.

This guy was such an asshole at Primavera. Threatening to stop the gig cos the crowd, who were predominantly Spanish surpisingly enough, couldn't follow his directions and wouldn't join in with his wacky antics. How about playing some music dude?

Yeah, I listened to one of his shows that NPR streamed and at least 40% of it was him giving these ridiculous instructions to the crowd. The 30 minutes of actual music he played were pretty good though. Love his albums.

This is kinda the worst music of the past fifteen years of 'indie.'

nahhh

i saw him 3-4 years ago and thought he was super annoying and that the format of his shows is idiotic, came around to his records later but continue to be mystified that he's known as a good live act

This has turned out to be one of my favourite albums of the year, surprisingly. Between this and Fool's Gold I feel hella indie.

man i wish i'd seen him with the band

q.: listening to this thing of his on spotify, now, 'meetle mice': does anyone know anything about it? because it is not anything like what i would have expected

of him in 2007, i mean. this last track was either six minutes of free improv or a convincing simulacra thereof.

saw him in 2008 during one of those "round robin" tour shows . . . he was decent iirc but the bands he played with were mostly O_O iirc

also, the audience O_O

one band was drums, bass, and singer iirc and all i remember is the dude repeatedly saying "WE'RE BUILDING A GHOST TOWN"

he played a show at the crown (100 capacity) last week, playing all material, it was great!!

i'm glad he wasn't messing with that immaterial stuff like last time

^eugh, new material!

i wonder how much new stuff he's doing in the basketball arenas and enormodomes he's opening for arcade fire in

by new do you mean, newer than America?

he's definitely playing some stuff from the upcoming album

i've been waiting 5 months for that correction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBVd-7tJb8o

new disc out Feb 2015
very excited since America is starting to make a run for my favorite disc of this decade thus far

wasn't as into the song in that video, but obv it was just a minute worth. and i've not enjoyed the singles released prior to the albums... i think his stuff comes across better when he has time to stretch things out. esp like the song 'lots' i didn't think was v representative of america really

excellent hour+ interview with dan https://soundcloud.com/height-zone-world/episode-24-dan-deacon-all-of-the-satans-of-every-religion

ah cool, Height's interviews on there have been really good so far

that was a really fun listen, love dan's laugh

gliss riffer is amazing. like steve reich dj rashad with that signature deac' euphoric build. completely love it

agreed, i'm really happy his sense of humor is more apparent than on the super serious (but great) America. that one chord progression he overuses in the sig deac euph build is only on one song, too, i think. masterfully crafted but with the spirit of pizza horse or lion with a sharks head or totally boner eat shit.

"feel the lightning" is one of my favorite songs this year, sounds like Black Moth Super Rainbow.

he doesn't get enough credit for his song titles. "Learning to Relax" followed by "Take it to the Max" is hilarious. "Steely Blues" is great too, i remember for a long time he was impossible to find on youtube because of deacon blues

^^ all the song titles on meetle mice back you up there

that one chord progression he overuses in the sig deac euph build

lol true, the one in crystal cat that is also used on like half the songs on spiderman of the rings

take it to the max is awesome but... he could've taken it a little bit more to the max, imo

p4k not on his side with this one. it's a drag

xp lol maximum groove

i just thought the last 2 albums were a major snooze so this one's kind of back to the basics, super fun upbeat scannersheadexplode.gif zany dan d madness

Bromst is his masterpiece imo

this is great b/c his prankster side is back tho

oh yeah, he's absolutely hilarious. he's a great stand-up/improv performer. the long interview i posted a bit upthread has so many amazing throwaway lines and bits and voices...the way he imitates the concert promoter from Texas trying to book the Sex Pistols ("um...I have a cohn-certe hall...") just LEVELS me

Awesome album, lovably weird & uplifting. Also, I continue to somehow strangely connect him to Eno ca. Taking Tiger Mountain.

it really is gorgeous. I don't think it's much like Spiderman really; more like an album of "True Thrush" in the way Bromst was an album of "Crystal Cat". I've been floored with it on every listen thus far, "Meme Generator" in particular is really neat. related note, I've come to realize that America is one of my favorite albums ever.

Dan Deacon bashing Poptimism

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/2015_artist_survey_dan_deacon/

in a recent interview -

Mainstream pop music is increasingly embraced by indie rock musicians and listeners, as well as serious music critics. At this point, do you draw any distinctions between Top 40 pop and indie rock/pop? Are you comfortable with this shift?

The only part of the shift that feels weird is that so much of pop music and mainstream culture revolves around the ideals of capitalism and wealth fetish culture. I don't care how people want to arrange tones, rhythms, words, and textures but I do care when it works to perpetuate our fucked system and I feel lots of pop music does that without realizing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZ9ICeyiic

Is "Bjork's House" like a space or...

I'm assuming that's a yes looking at the other videos in the channel.

Oh my Dan Deacon
We could make it together

Saw a good amount of DD this past year through connections between the people we were dating. Unsurprisingly a nice a fun guy.

Forgot how much I liked this, really glad there's footage of it.

https://vimeo.com/19247287

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-BZduxT2h4

saw him on this tour, probably the most fun show I've ever been to. Dan singled me out because I was wearing a bear hat, which in my state felt like appropriate attire for a Dan Deacon show

cool! SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS reissue w/ ULTIMATE REALITY on vinyl for the first time http://pitchfork.com/news/dan-deacon-announces-spiderman-of-the-rings-10-year-anniversary-reissue/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

Still have my white vinyl copy... somewhere... erghj i should look for that...

tour behind bromst was one of the best shows i've ever seen

me too. that whartscape video i posted upthread was one of the most exciting sets i've ever seen.

first time I saw dan live was a month before Spiderman came out, he opened for Girl Talk at a 300 cap. bar and played on the floor. i was squished up against him and danced like crazy the whole time. probably saw him 20+ times in those 3 years. eager to see whatever he's working on now.

just pulled up to the venue in his wacky oil-powered school bus they'd all been living/touring in and knew i was in for something special

:)

full Whartscape 2009 set, necessary viewing for any fan: https://vimeo.com/5624665

gonna be a good boy and wait until my preorder arrives but word is the new one is very very good

Yep it really is, I think everyone who’s a fan is gonna be satisfied with this

Just bought tickets for his tour. Not the biggest fan in the world but his is a show I've always wanted to see

I think everyone who’s a fan is gonna be satisfied with this

yep, very satisfied. I could have done with a change of pace in the second half - the whole thing's pretty relentless - but all good really. I was puzzling over the second 'disc' of edits on Spotify. Then I realised: they're perfect for playlists.

does anyone else wish he would stop using the same chord progression on multiple songs on every album of his

half of this is good, half is a retread imo

I can see that - the "Jimmy Joe Roche"/"Get Older" progression shows up a couple times, though he's got such a unique sound that I give him a pass on that sort of thing

my one minor complaint is that its pretty stuffed, feels like one of those albums that could've hit the hour mark but tried to cram everything into a single LP. tbh I don't know if this is necessarily a bad thing. as much as I like Bromst I've definitely wished it was cut down a bit

Pitchfork gave this a 6.4 even though the review is pretty much entirely positive, minus a comment about the lyrics. pretty much what I expect outta them these days.

ok I def hear that on "Sat By a Tree" now, it's like an AI-generated Dan Deacon single (something that probably only bothers me: there's a vocal part in it that sounds copped from TMBG's "Window")

rest of it sounds pretty fresh. I think "Arp" might be the best thing he's ever done so far. next to "USA" I guess.

he has a new soundtrack album out, called Well Groomed, a movie about...I dunno, haircuts for dogs or something

I didn't really get into his other soundtracks but this one is pretty good in a "Dan Deacon lite" sorta way, lotta shimmery and very pretty bits in here, almost sounds like Harmonia

this rules

I've got his main albums on vinyl now and something that strikes me about the first 3 is they have bits which just overwhelm the speakers ("True Thrush" and "Get Older" are the two biggest offenders). normally I'd say they were just mastered lousy but I wonder if there's something inherent in Dan's music that vinyl can't handle. like it's too dense to be accurately etched into the wax. Gliss Riffer & Mystic Familiar don't have that problem.