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The return of Deerhunter

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Deerhunter

It’s been a while since I featured Deerhunter on this blog, but with their fantastic new track ‘Snakeskin’ doing the rounds, frankly, there’s no reason not to!

The Athens, Georgia band are shortly to release their seventh album Fading Frontier on October 16, on 4AD. It includes contributions from Tim Gane (of Stereolab fame) and James Cargill (of Broadcast). The song is the first to do the rounds from the album and you can see the video below:

The album tracklisting is as follows:

1. All The Same
2. Living My Life
3. Breaker
4. Duplex Planet (ft. Tim Gane on Electronic Harpsichord)
5. Take Care (ft. James Cargill on Synthesisers and Tapes)
6. Leather And Wood
7. Snakeskin (ft. Zumi Rosow on Treated Alto Saxophone)
8. Ad Astra
9. Carrion

Album Review: Deerhunter

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Deerhunter -‘Microcastle’/’Weird era Cont.’

Deerhunter’s third album is their first on 4AD. This is not so much a double album, rather than a ‘bonus disc of brand new material [Weird Era Cont]…an album in its’ own right.

There are lots of great songs on this album, spread across the two discs. The problem is that it tends to be a little disorientating with the sheer arnge of stuff on here that it’s a bit much to take in in one sitting. The album is a fitting one for 4AD to release, with its’ overtones of sunny shoegazing (or dreampop, if you’re American). At times they remind this listener of the Dandy Warhols, at other times Big Star is the point that comes to mind.

Stand-out tracks here include ‘Activa’ and ‘Neither Of Us, Uncertainly.’ There’s bits here I will want to hear again, but I’m not sure that I feel the urge to keep playing the album in its’ entirety. And that’s not a reflection on the iPod generation, but rather on the fact that this is has great tracks which don’t quite hang together as an album.

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Deerhunter -‘Nothing Ever Happened.’ mp3

Deerhunter’s Myspace

Microcastle/Weird era Cont. is out now on 4AD