Deerhoof vs. Evil
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Deerhoof vs. Evil drops on January 11, and marks the band's first official stance on evil in 14 albums: they are against it.
We're told that Deerhoof recorded the album "in practice spaces and basements with no engineers or outside input." There are instrument swaps, a cover of an obscure Greek film soundtrack, and a song sung in Catalan. These are measures taken to ensure a departure from "all notions of what a Deerhunter record sounds like."
But take a listen to "The Merry Barracks," the album's first single, and you'll hear loud, shaggy bursts of guitar, a beat with backbone, and Satomi Matsuzaki's vocals weirdly making melodic sense. It straddles the line of sleek accessibility and something less so. Sound familiar? If it ain't broke…
Posted on October 11, 2010. More on: deerhoof
