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- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Pop
- Label: ATP Recordings
Prog for kids yearning for rock ballistics but too shy to admit it
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Deerhoof makes progressive rock. But where King Crimson thrilled stoned teenagers with hairy-balled showboating, Deerhoof’s complexity is more effortless and humble — prog for kids yearning for rock ballistics but too shy to admit it. Their perverse dichotomies, though, are what make Deerhoof great: they’re too mysterious to be twee, grand but never gauche — and they’re cuddly. (Experimental rock: still down on cuddling.) So they regularly present eminently mixtape-able mindfucks like “+81” or the stoned ballad “Matchbook Seeks Maniac” — poppy abrasions with the highest per-capita idea rate on the planet — while retaining a naïve optimism (and sense of fear) that Beefheart and Pere Ubu would’ve guffawed at.
Friend Opportunity, their fifth near-great album this decade, is also their most approachable. They’ve always operated at jazz-like levels of alchemy, so losing guitarist Chris Cohen should be an elemental blow. But like a blind man with unnerving olfactory prowess, loss has spawned adaptation: they’ve learned the power of overdubbing and the mileage of a slight dose of funk. With the creativity of guitar bands hitting sub-rotting fish levels, Deerhoof’s charming virtuosity — without agenda — is as progressive as it gets.
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The Perfect Me |
2:40 |
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| 02. | |
+81 |
3:03 |
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| 03. | |
Believe E.S.P |
3:07 |
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| 04. | |
The Galaxist |
2:40 |
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| 05. | |
Choco Fight |
3:01 |
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| 06. | |
Whither The Invisible Birds? |
2:11 |
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| 07. | |
Cast Off Crown |
2:47 |
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| 08. | |
Kidz Are So Small |
1:59 |
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| 09. | |
Matchbook Seeks Maniac |
3:23 |
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| 10. | |
Look Away |
11:45 |
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10 Total Tracks, 36:36 Total Length
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