Deerhoof??

(ok, reveille)

Oh wait, Human Clay.

(my answer to this thread is Apple O')

I think that the presence of, "Apple Bomb" on Apple O' pretty much silences the debate like the proverbial smashed plate of asparagus against the wall..

1.The bassist left the band.
2. theres a new E.P to download in their website, but i cant download it - it gives me the error sign all the time.
am i the only one? if yes - how is the ep?

I wonder if chris is leaving before they open for radiohead next month

FWIW he was the newest member of the band, he replaced on/off again member Rob Fisk.

--call me crazy, but i would recommend starting w/ The Runners Four.
--as for Curtains, i really only like the first lp, Fast Talks

& I like the Natural Dreamers CD too, though live was better

Deerhoof are one of the very few bands that have never done a shit record ever - so yeah there's no 'best album' really, depends what butters your muffin - if it's noisy randomness try 'The Man The King The Girl', avant-pop songs try 'The Runners Four' or 'Holdypaws', growly guitars try 'Reveille' or 'Halfbird', spazzy prog try 'Milkman'... they're all fucking great records anyway.

=x=x=

Anyways, saw them last night at a pretty big venue (600 people) and they were as good as I've ever seen them (as 4-some, 3-some, then 4-some now back to 3-some) in the past 10 years.

I'm in the camp that is slightly mild on Runners Four but think the new songs are as good as anything they've done when they play them live

Also on Reveille, the song "All Rise" is much more enjoyable if you imagine it played by a really drunk organ player at, say, the Major League Baseball All-Star game.

Part of it has to do with the "this is the one album you really need to own by this band" mentality that permeates our culture. Get this album, and you've got this band covered. Next. The same thing's happening with Frog Eyes. It's as if being prolific were a bad thing. It's probably Old Man Pollard's fault.

Ed Rodriguez from Flying Luttenbachers/Colossamite/Ice Burn/Gorge Trio/Sicbay just joined Deerhoof! : )

talk about double trouble on guitar! hot combo now

So that makes it Deerhoof mk. 7?

new album BREAKUP SONG fucking rules. short and sweet, barely 30 minutes, total party record with a sick low-end crunch and some really great, concise hooks. the heaviest deerhoof record yet. reminds me a little bit of dope body. they're on tour now, has anyone seen them lately?

like it a lot. Good comeback from vs. evil, which I thought was kind of tossable.

Yeah, this was the first one I've been able to get into since...half of runners four.

jeez how many different songs called 'flower' have they got

this is a p good record

lol i know

http://youtu.be/SkGB8r012q8

new record came out Tuesday, this track is fun as FUCK

album is called La Isla Bonita. dunno if it can beat breakup song, tho

Oh, that's so awesome, I had no idea. I really should pay more attention to what they're up to. One of the most consistently great bands of the past decade.

Deerhoof vs. CERN

http://cds.cern.ch/record/2053121

they needed a live album and the new one is v fun

there is a NEW new one!!!!

After all the accolades from press and peers, what’s a legendary band to do? Forget the recording studio, rent out an abandoned office space in the middle of the New Mexico desert, set up, plug in and play REALLY LOUD. Starting with hardly a notion of the outcome, by seven days later Deerhoof had found (you guessed it) The Magic: a raw and refreshing 15-song wallop of an album about what happens when you leave your comfort zone.

The version of Deerhoof you hear on The Magic is a most punch-drunk proposition. Everyone showed up in the mood to sing. Satomi, Greg, John and Ed dream up alchemies of punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, attitude and spandex. Poetry into noise. Volume knob into gratification. Friendship into rock band.

According to drummer Greg, the music on The Magic was lurking in the shadows of "what we liked when we were kids - when music was magic - before you knew about the industry and before there were rules. Sometimes hair metal is the right choice."

For singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki The Magic is but the latest episode of an ongoing gamble: "I joined Deerhoof a week after I arrived in San Francisco from Japan. I hopped on a MUNI bus to have a first meeting but got off at a wrong stop. I was lost and confused. They found me on a dark street corner after I called for help from a pay phone. Since then my adventure expanded. Deerhoof is a vehicle with four powered wheels that takes me through forest, desert and buildings. My life is adventure!"

The Magic is a mixtape imbued with Deerhoof's sorcery -- boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. It is a mixtape by the kid with the biggest music collection you've ever seen, who will take you camping and show you how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Awesome. Sounds great. So glad they are still around and making good work.

I wouldn't even say they're one of my very favorite bands (but maybe they are?) but they are a band that, as a band and what they have done and continue to do, I have SO MUCH respect and admiration and love for

I would absolutely say they're one of my favorite working bands. And there hasn't even been like a slow decline in quality or anything, like that thing where you continue to indulge a musical act's newer and more mediocre work because they did stuff back in the day that you really loved. Some of their more recent stuff is among the best they've done, imo.

dammit, i want my adventure to expand

i probably told the story somewhere on ilx in the past but i'll always have infinite respect and <3 for deerhoof, esp Greg, because he went out of his way to help me get into an over-21 show when i was underage. i didn't even ask - he offered. he's a great guy.

also he is one of the greatest drummers of all time

"Avant-rockers Deerhoof team with the elite contemporary classical outfit Ensemble Dal Niente for a weird and wonderful musical exchange. "

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21806-balter-saunier/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Spl-lHcAao

The track they put out, "Cherubim", is fantastic. I pre-ordered this straight away. Super excited!

You can hear the whole thing here. I've been listening to it a lot. I brought it up on two other threads but no one replied, ha.

Thank you!

gracias

New album is the best since Runners Four. and I liked Breakup Song a lot.

yeah it's fantastic, maybe their best album....ever?

at the very least it's their most immediate album. usually takes 3-5 listens for a deerhoof album to sink in for me but i loved this from the first spin.
15 tracks and not a single dud.

streaming at npr for those who are interested.

yeah, this is a fun album! I need to spend more time with it. This and the last one are the best they've been in a good while.

digging this, it bangs

recorded in 6 days (!)

first track is lovely. thanks for the heads up

Ensemble dal Niente collab is very nice.

apparently, the first 600 vinyl preorders of the new album come with a handmade cassette tape of the band covering david bowie, madonna, van halen, def leppard, malaria!, public enemy and sonic youth. here's "pour some sugar on me":

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

yeah! i got that cassette and thought it was just someone's old mixtape. Polyvinyl always sends you tchotchkes with your record - pins, stickers, a mystery-flavored Airhead. imagine my surprise when I heard THAT ^...

haven't checked the post office to see whether i made the cut. hoping, but i kind of doubt it.

thank god for this band. they are our north star

yeah, loving this

yes

so bummed i missed them when they came through (work night, burnt out from mixing all day). i looked at some of their recent setlists and was disappointed so many of my favorite songs on The Magic haven't been played live yet ("The Devil and his...," "Acceptance Speech," "Criminals of the Dream"), but it's cool that they have so many albums that they basically play one song from each plus 4 from the new one and bam, there's a set.

"Criminals of the Dream" is greattt

Probably the best thing they've done since Offend Maggie imo. But like all Deerhoof albums there are a few standouts and a few tracks that I don't strongly dislike but could happily live without.

The Balter/Saunier thing is pretty great.

new single is bliss

https://famousclass.bandcamp.com/album/i-thought-we-were-friends

Yeah we talked about it some on Rolling Indie Pop Rock last summer, and I'm still digging it:

Just finished my first listen to Deerhoof's The Magic. 15 tracks in 40' 29", and I know I haven't taken it all in, but plenty instant gratification---"Plastic Thrills" could've been the fitting title track---and I love the drumming throughout.

― dow, Saturday, June 25, 2016 2:11 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, ive never been a huge Deerhoof guy but i thought that new one sounded great...for the band's fans, is this their most "accessible"? or no?

― alpine static, Saturday, June 25, 2016

i saw them in berlin a while ago and i didn't appreciate the concert. very repetitive noisy short tracks which felt like sketches not like complete songs. the dynamic japanese singer with all her gestures towards the audience was quite funny. if these people master their instruments they were very successful in hiding it.

Surprised to hear that. Saunier is a great drummer

I'm surprised too. I've seen them 2 or 3 times and they're always really on point and excellent players

Just discovered that Saunier and Satomi are married

was kinda thrown by the new vocals (Ed Rodriguez?), on a few tracks on The Magic... makes their music sound more generic somehow.

or it's the songs themselves (structure, riffage etc.) that sounded generic.. on those songs where Ed (?) sings

Just discovered that Saunier and Satomi are married

― calstars, Friday, October 21, 2016 3:59 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!

Many of these tracks have classic rock nods, def. But it's not a bad thing. They do it rly well.

"Criminals of the Dream" is greattt
― calstars, Monday, July 4, 2016 8:19 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favorite 🌟🌟🌟

lol at anyone being surprised by alex in mainhattan's incredibly poor judgement re: music quality

new album is excellent, I play a track or two every week on my radio show since it's in rotation

https://youtu.be/1Q2g3Fo2A7k

Life is Suffering - i keep coming back to this track

still think this album holds up

still haven't given it (The Magic) a thorough listen/rinsing. Breakup Song still holds up w/its high energy and novel hooks throughout--it's super concise, and it bangs. they've quite an impressive run of albums. i read somewhere that they recorded The Runners Four live, w/minimal post-production (additional layering etc.).. can anyone confirm that?

https://youtu.be/mJLLW8Ye7tI

Deerhoof - Mirror Monster (Official Video)

beautiful track and video

new single rules

Thank god they're playing dh at the bar

https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/album/mountain-moves-3

their best album since friend opportunity imo

Damn, that's high praise!

Just got my copy the other day, listened to it 3-4 times yesterday. Listening now... it's not as immediate as The Magic, which I thought was their best record in years, but it's really, really great, and already growing on me. The guest features are really something else though - never thought I would hear Jenn Wasner or Laetitia Sadier on a Deerhoof record, but of course it makes perfect sense now. I think for the past couple years they've generally been on a roll that's so far matching what they did at the height of their rock powers in the mid-00s. I bought the Joyful Noise wooden box collection thing or whatever, and I've been getting LPs and tapes in the mail as part of it: side-projects, different configurations, covers, experiments. All really great stuff. We should do another album poll in a month or two, last one was in 2009 and Reveille won (????????).

It's certainly their most pointedly political record ever. Reading the lyrics is a bit shocking.

man, this record really is something else. just stunning. i am so glad this band exists and continues to make work this good

Excited to hear this!

Agree - seems very consistent and "melodically interesting" fwiw

Greg and Satomi are the fleetwood and macVie of today

staples singers cover is nice. march each and every day

closing with a cover of Small Axe is really sweet

I don't dislike this album but it seems uncharacteristically straightforward and un-wacky for them!

what did you think of The Magic? I thought that was a turning point for them - straightforward like you said, but the songwriting is so strong & they've really mastered their studio process. "Criminals of the Dream," "Acceptance Speech," and "Debut" are all excellent. If anything I thought some of their early '10s albums were too wacky/contrived.

It felt like a return to, like, Apple 'O type stuff. I liked it! It was still wacky but less wacky than some of the prior ones. I think the the last one I deeply loved was La Isla Bonita

Listened to this interview with Greg recently:
https://soundcloud.com/thewanderingwolf/124-greg-saunier-deerhoof

Cool to know that he's still recording the band on essentially the same gear as the older albums and that he doesn't feel like he knows what he's doing, very relatable.

sweet, thanks for sharing that - i love his interviews

new album seems extremely good especially "farewell" symphony and o ye saddle babes

a little deerhoof goes a long way for me, but I've liked a little of it at a time for so long now, and it makes me happy to know that they're always out there doing that deerhoof thing, making that deerhoof music, apparently selling enough of it to those crazy deerhoof lifers to keep that deerhoof music machine well oiled and properly maintained and year after year pumping out that quality deerhoof music product for the kids

got the record in the mail yesterday

xp I think that a lot too, actually. I really really like them a lot, I wouldn't say they're my FAVORITE band, but they are possibly the band I have the greatest amount of respect and admiration for

but sadly I think this new album is their first ever where I'm just like.... eh

Maybe the just-announced live album w/ Wadada Leo Smith will relight the fire!

Damn I'm in like a minute in and ready to cry

great news, i loved the 2016 release. band i like most that i haven't managed to see live yet

Amazing live band. Possibly they release albums a bit too often, they never go away long enough that you wonder what happened to them. And maybe they should record in a recording studio some times.

lost touch with them a little in recent years but it's always comforting to know they are out there

they have a totally original voice musically how many bands can claim that?

one of those bands that's underrated bc they've been around a long time, kind of stick to the same sound, and put out an album every year or so, but they obviously rule. i don't listen to everything they put out but every time i do i'm like wow there are some great jams on here

this album is really good

Greg Saunier is a great producer though, every record he touches sounds great. I mean Deerhoof gets pretty baroque, it's not like they've been slumming it with garage rock for 15+ years.

If there's one thing that bothers me most about music fans and critics in particular is that bands like Deerhoof, that stick around and consistently put out good or great albums, are neglected and even slighted for DOING EXACTLY THAT. and it always happens, you will miss them when they are gone! it's just buying into a narrative or career arc rock fantasy that is so long dead. Xiu Xiu get treated the same way and it sucks.

live streaming new covers album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmCbec2CA34

current track is a mashup of knight rider theme with satomi reading bits from raymond scott jingles + flourishes from indeterminate mauricio kagel scores > 'electric avenue' & two seconds of gary numan's 'cars' segueing immediately into beach boys' 'wonderful' juxtaposed with oliveros & evidently, in a few seconds, 'rainbow connection'

last six minutes:

Tenney + Silver Apples interjecting Summers' solo from 'Driven To Tears'
'We Are The Robots' with solos taken from Williams' 'Close Encounters' score & Feldman's 'Chromatic Field'
Parliament + Asha Puthli + Morricone + Babbit
B52's + Gubadulina
two seconds of Dionne Warwick > David Graeber + Derek Bailey transcription

recorded live. and as much as this looks like playlisting run amok, sounds only like them. I hope this gets pressed.

It's on the 'camp:

https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/album/love-lore

ORNETTE COLEMAN • IN ALL LANGUAGES
J.D. ROBB • EXCERPT FROM SPATIAL SERENADE
VOIVOD • MACROSOLUTIONS TO MEGAPROBLEMS
EARL KIM • EARTHLIGHT
STU PHILLIPS • KNIGHT RIDER
RAYMOND SCOTT • OHIO BELL
MAURICIO KAGEL • MUSIC FOR RENAISSANCE INSTRUMENTS
EDDIE GRANT • ELECTRIC AVENUE
GARY NUMAN • CARS
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN • KONTAKTE
THE BEACH BOYS • WONDERFUL
GERALD FRIED • STAR TREK: BALANCE OF TERROR
PAULINE OLIVEROS • ALL FOURS
PAUL WILLIAMS • RAINBOW CONNECTION
JAMES TENNEY • FOR ANN (RISING)
SILVER APPLES • OSCILLATIONS
THE POLICE • DRIVEN TO TEARS
KRAFTWERK • WE ARE THE ROBOTS
JOHN WILLIAMS • CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
MORTON FELDMAN • PATTERNS IN A CHROMATIC FIELD
SUN RA • THEY DWELL ON OTHER PLANES
PARLIAMENT • UNFUNKY UFO
ASHA PUTHLI • SPACE TALK
ENNIO MORRICONE • OTTAVE COMANDAMENTO: CORRI VELOCE
MILTON BABBITT • HOMILY FOR SNARE DRUM
THE B52S • SONG FOR A FUTURE GENERATION
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA • MECHANICAL ACCORDION
VINICIUS DE MORAES & BADEN POWELL • O ASTRONAUTA
DIONNE WARWICK • DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE?
DAVID GRAEBER • OF FLYING CARS AND THE DECLINING RATE OF PROFIT
DEREK BAILEY • IMPROVISATION
WILLIAM HANNA & HOYT CURTIN • THE JETSONS
ANTHONY BRAXTON • C-M=B05
GYORGY KURTAG • SHADOWS FOR CONTRABASS SOLO
ERIC SIDAY • THE PERKING COFFEE POT
IGOR STRAVINSKY • VARIATIONS ALDOUS HUXLEY IN MEMORIAM
CAETANO VELOSO • PULSAR
LUIGI NONO • UNO ESPRESSIONE
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI • THRENODY FOR THE VICTIMS OF HIROSHIMA
JOHN CAGE • EMPTY WORDS
GEORGE BRECHT • DRIP MUSIC
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND • ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
LAURIE ANDERSON • EXAMPLE #22

seriously fascinating post-stream conversation

Ben Piekut's liner notes are KEY. I know Chris Cutler has reservations about his Cow book, but of all the people who have taken up the ideas in Cutler's 'File Under Popular' - Ben's incredibly clear about what 'vernacular avant-garde' means in practice. the fear of how easy it is assemble playlists like this crumbles in the face of music that sounds this great

they had better press this

this is fucking awesome

greg saunier continues to be the greatest drummer of all time

btw the transition from the end of knightrider to electric avenue sounds a lot like rebore vol. 0 by eYe, which is an incredibly difficult and amazing thing to sound like, especially using live instruments, holy shit

ok, yes, they can't press it. not with this many things to clear, and the legality of obtaining permission goes into overdrive when you're dealing with interpolations / mashups; anything more complicated than single-composer publishing requires estate permission. so leaving this pay what you want puts it in DJ playlist territory where it's left to the bots who can make sure Ek gets paid

that being said I am hoping this does not get confused for a stopgap release, this is some crazy stuff. the Mae Shi Mixtape is one thing, where you can have an artifact of the listening habits of a modern rock band, but 15 years on hearing something like that physically played live is a whole new thing

Piekut's book Experimentalism Otherwise went a long way to catching me up to a lot of things rock audiences take for granted. Not until the tour van last year had I even heard the Stooges

yep - i purchased one of the prints (for $25), one because they deserve my money but also because that's probably the only physical thing related to the release that it'll ever get

ow wow

yikes this is fucking great

This is one of the very few rock bands that I gaf about chops, my favorite stuff of theirs has always been the math-y interplay and Greg's fireworks. On first listen at least I'm digging this as much as anything since Runner's Four

Also it flows beautifully and is surprisingly digestible considering all that's crammed in here...seems no more disjointed than any other 'Hoof album

This is an absolute blast, especially the sci-fi epic, "Love-Lore 4". Hadrian otm, this just nails everything I love about this band in a really playful way.

I'm thinking Greg should divorce himself from the band twitter account.

lol he ain't wrong about Republicans

haha, the politics stuff I'm find with... it's the self-promotion stuff, the "hey I have a new gf isn't she purty" stuff, ya know... the non-Deerhoof content.

huh i must be following the wrong deerhoof bcuz i don't see that

I don't talk about personal things much on Deerhoof Twitter but I feel so lucky I have been able to spend these lockdown months with my lovable partner Sarah.
-G pic.twitter.com/SFWC75ST0i

— 𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕣𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕗 (@deerhoof) October 12, 2020

just 10 minutes ago my partner asked me "so do you listen the rolling stones every day?"

— 𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕣𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕗 (@deerhoof) September 2, 2020

"Wasps" from @serengetidave new album "With Greg From Deerhoof" is reviewed in the latest edition of CABBAGEShttps://t.co/Mr8qgqvQm4 pic.twitter.com/JTjTEXGP1k

— 𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕣𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕗 (@deerhoof) October 29, 2020

"Much respected indie Hip-Hop artist Serengeti announces the release of his latest offering, With Greg From Deerhoof, the collaborative album with Greg Saunier. Of Deerhoof. The story of the musical union began back in May 2009..." - thanks @GhettoBlasterEhttps://t.co/g5WKKpeumM

— 𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕣𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕗 (@deerhoof) October 27, 2020

etc...

lol I think an album with all the instrumentals made by a Deerhoof member might be of interest to Deerhoof fans

sure, but it's def. a Greg-heavy account and biased towards him. Needs more of the other band members' input or content imho.

I don't talk about personal things much on Deerhoof Twitter

makes you think, doesn't it?

i'm cool with the deerhoof account talking about whatever, but that's because i'm a peaceloving, old school hippie

DEERHOOF IS A BAND

There should at least be some reciprocation, no? Let Satomi brag about her new squeeze also

compromise: whoever is best at playing drums can post on the deerhoof account. it's meritocratic

too bad greg saunier is one of the top 10 drummers...

OF ALL TIME

i believe it, fight me, RT me

"deerhoof is the best rock band of the 21st century" is a thing i have caught myself saying multiple times in recent months.

Love-Lore is so great. it might be my most listened to deerhoof release at this point.

ive grown to love "offend maggie" so much.

It's the good kind of predictable, that thing where, because I'm completely out of the loop wrt new music, I occasionally fall ass-backward into news that Deerhoof has (somewhat) recently released yet another new album that is as good if not better than the albums they'd released previously. Although it looks like there's two of them to check out this time? Cool.

I'm still catching up with La Isla Bonita (though I did skip ahead to Love-Lore and lovelored the shit out of it). "Big House Waltz"! sheesh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYjI1cLWcZY

met greg this weekend. funny guy. my mate says he's convinced it's just jim carrey acting as him now

was kinda wild seeing him drum in the flesh after years of watching him on yt...

hella jeal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKF3DF-TvrQ

i cannot stop watching this. they put so much dynamism into these jd songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YDMgzRKXQA

love this^

excellent video, dang

HOT TIP: new album is available in full to download and stream via Bandcamp, today only

out today
https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/album/actually-you-can

Thanks for the reminder!

how are they this consistently good?

they're underrated. maybe i'm speaking for myself, i absolutely love them but kinda always forget about them

they are my favorite band

I always check in on the new records as they come but it’s the rare LP that sticks for me as a whole. Usually there’s a track or two that totally works.

This new record is among the stronger ones. On the last record - or one of the last records, anyway, it can be hard to keep pace - “‘Farewell’ Symphony” was a knock out punch.

Personal favorites: The Runners Four, Friend Opportunity, Actually You Can

La Isla Bonita also pretty tight

offend maggie has become my personal favorite

so weirdly, i got into them via 'the magic', found it really compelling and amazing. i've dabbled around the edges with some of their newer stuff as well as the more canonical 'classics' from early 00s. for those of you more versed, where does the magic fit in? suggestions on where to go next?

the magic is one of my favs as well. i feel like la isla bonita is in a similar vein as far as funkier/groovier moments.

Apple O' for me

apple o and reveille are my forever favorites but of the 'newer' ones I think this most recent release and Love-Lore are truly awesome

thanks all! i also listened to runners four for a spell, really enjoyed parts of it but thought it was too long

the best way to listen to deerhoof ime is several hour binges spread out over several weeks. they dont really have a "masterpiece" bc i think theyre categorically opposed to such ideas but you just listen to a grip of albums and think yeah they can p much play anything they want and it usually works.

like what makes them imminently relistenable is them being a band in constant conflict with itself. classic rock riffs into noodly jazzy shit. heavy noise with satomi's sweet voice. recognizable references to rock's past with fucked up time signatures and other detours. too trashy to be academic, too avant garde to be pop. they not a band that gets comfortable, and while certain stylistic and timbral themes remain constant, they really dont write the same song twice.

i want to hear

the ultimate deerhoof mix

apple o and reveille are my forever favorites but of the 'newer' ones I think this most recent release and Love-Lore are truly awesome

this lines up with me too, just because i zoned out during the middle 15 years between those

love-lore is a great accomplishment

i am working on a youtube mix as we speak, but this will feature prominently bc its their most moving one 4 me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywd3jr6bs-I

this one too, maybe i should do a 'poignant deerhoof' mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAl7NPyRMg

if you wanted to be truly gutsy you could "live mix" it here

jagged fruit was siiiick! i don't remember hearing it before, even

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLumtnLDTWxGocEM6FDZNXp7y8wmKC70UD

here is a list of 20 songs with tracks spanning from apple o (2003) to future teenaged cave artists (2020), just focusing on studio albums (plus one ep track and one orchestral arrangement for good measure). love-lore and other covers projects are a thing that deserve their own attention.

oh and i guess the first one is technically a live track. i rec'd that set too!

i think this will embed correctly now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoD0WVxrsfQ

ah fuck it, thats the first song

desapareceré!!

yes! i neglected to mention milk man, which is also in my eternal deerhoof memory. i worked at a store when it came out so i had dozens of extra milk man promo posters with the milk man guy:

https://i.imgur.com/96LPw3q.jpg

i hung them up all over my second post-dorm housing situation, which also, somehow, included a joy division poster and oasis

https://i.imgur.com/96LPw3q.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/96LPw3q.jpg

#tmi #onethread alert

i am listening/watching the m bison deerhoof mix as i pack my divorce boxes. i am very high and effexor-drunk (which is to say, not at all), and it is keeping me positive, thanking u m bison mix! upvote

<3 u

honestly though i keep waiting for the drop

xp!

perpetually underrated

still one of the best rock bands around

New album's out? They are weirdly easy to take for granted, maybe because they're so consistent and prolific. Not enough of a narrative there I guess.

Speaking of, how known was it at the time that Breakup Songs was about Greg and Satomi's divorce? Pub for the song on this new one about it being for Greg's second marriage got me by surprise.

Anyway I'll listen soon.

They’re a band who are (for me!) a killer stray tracks band, I know that compilations aren’t as profitable as they once were but a 2xCD for Deerhoof would be awesome.

(Runners Four and Friend Opportunity are the exceptions)

This one is OK, has some high highs

They are weirdly easy to take for granted, maybe because they're so consistent and prolific. Not enough of a narrative there I guess.

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this is otm, they just keep putting out a good album every couple of years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7ebFaQhrQ

this new halo maud single produced by greg (and drummed on by greg presumably) is in the deerhoof orbit and also i love this

new free triple live album is unsurprisingly great.
https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/album/the-free-triple-live-album

up on youtube too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUuFXKIeNQ

what a wonderful band

i love them so much

I predict a "Harness Your Hopes" Pavement type surprise re-surfaced hit to happen to them at some point. They are too good to just remain this under the radar in popular culture. So consistently amazing too.

It felt like they were massive, one of the biggest indie bands on Earth from about ‘03-‘06 or so…definitely haven’t heard too much about them in the years since but they definitely had their fair share of appreciation at the time.

They continue to tour and record constantly, but, as ever, the media circus quickly moves on to new, fresh acts - and it’s as though ye olde band/project vanished.

they are amazing, but they were never even close to one of the biggest indie bands on Earth!

yeah no way. they weren't even as big as like, tortoise, or will oldham.

they were certainly one of the best live acts of that era. i think people kept expecting they would break bigger but they never quite did

Starting listening to this podcast about the making of Runners Four. I always liked them but also never connected super hard or listened to one of their records over and over. Totally love hearing about them as a group of ex-music school weirdos totally committed to going insane recording in a shitty practice space for a year though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8q2rYnx7tE

IIRC their episode of Rig Rundown on YouTube is pretty great too. They are unconventionally economical in their approach to equipment. A good strategy for the long haul.

God they've released an insane amount of music. Listening to Greg's new solo album now, which sounds great (and surprisingly/not surprisingly close to Deerhoof).

New one, Noble and Godlike in Ruin, is wonderful! I'll admit that I kind of fell off around 2019-2020 and only heard that Love-Lore record. On the basis of this, I need to go back and pick up the ones I missed since Mountain Movers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/indie-veterans-deerhoof-remove-catalog-141624051.html

kudos to them

i love them so much

also im going to see them in austin in october, so stoked

<3

❤️

Saw my first Deerhoof show in nyc the other night and goddamn did they blow me away. Whole band is insanely talented but Greg in particular was out of control good. Almost certainly the most impressive drummer I've seen perform live. That said, I've mostly been to rock shows, so I'm sure there are jazz drummers who are more talented, but I can't imagine it's by much.

Hope you have fun, m bison!

Also, big props to them for pulling from spotify. Always been a shit company and I've kind of justified my continued use of it by telling myself that it's okay because I go to shows and buy records and merch, but...$700 mil to some wannabe Palantir startup. Might have to be the final straw for me as well.

Deerhoof is rad, long may they live!

Can't believe it took me until 2025 to see them. One of the greatest live bands I've ever seen

Greg is a cartoon rat hair monster magician demon, hadn't quite appreciated how his and Satomi's dynamic of contrasts drives the whole thing

been over a decade since i last saw them! glad to hear they're still so good

Never seen a band before where the guitarists are toiling away humbly at the back of the stage lol