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| Tinymixtapes |
 Let’s be honest: was there really anybody who was waiting with baited breath for Deerhunter’s third full-length, Microcastle? Discounting the antagonistic one-two punch of last year’s Cryptograms and the Fluorescent Grey EP, we’ve received, in the last year and change, the frostily sexual debut from Bradford Cox’s Atlas Sound side project and enough demos, mix tapes, and EPs posted to the band’s blog that could easily fill a double-disc set (if not more). It can be hard to get excited about new releases from overwhelmingly prolific bands, no matter how consistently strong the material is.Of course, being the stubborn, complex individuals that they are, Deerhunter have regardless delivered a true and instant stunner with Microcastle; its sonic debts may run deep to the dual sexual ambiguity and epic bliss of shoegaze and ’50s pop, but the record’s blood is warm with both nostalgia and originality....full text |
| Pitchforkmedia |
| Deerhunter toured with Nine Inch Nails this summer, making a stop at Colorado's famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre. That canyon found the Atlanta noise-rock quintet at a precipice. In the few months prior, Deerhunter had added a new guitarist, Whitney Petty, to replace the departed Colin Mee. Lead singer Bradford Cox had released his debut solo album, Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, under the name Atlas Sound. The band's third album, Microcastle, and its would-be surprise bonus disc, Weird Era Cont., had both leaked half a year before they were due in stores. Unimpressed NIN fans were writing blog posts comparing Cox to Geddy Lee. Like Trent Reznor, Cox is a classic outcast. But the real question is why Deerhunter aren't opening for Radiohead, as their friends in Liars and Grizzly Bear have done. Admirers and detractors of Deerhunter's 2007 breakout album, Cryptograms, all seemed to agree on one thing: Despite its status as an underground hit, it didn't explore totally new sounds. Radiohead didn't invent krautrock or avant-garde electronic music, either-- let alone UK post-punk, American alt-rock, or the Beatles. Instead, what they've done is use a stunning assortment of shrewd instrumental ideas to express contemporary anxiety and alienation, all in the form of pop songs, on albums conceived to be more than the sum of their parts....full text |
| Lostatsea |
| Each new Bradford Cox-related release seems to be confounding in some way. Deerhunter's first album, Turn It Up, Faggot, was abrasive, angular guitar rock that made them a perfect touring partner for Liars (which is where they cut their teeth), and Cryptograms jumped around from delay-heavy effects pedal meditations ("Red/White Ink") to strange and sweet concoctions like "Heatherwood." Flourescent Gray compounded on the type of interesting sound parings that made "Heatherwood" and "Spring Hall Convert" so interesting, and then his Atlas Sound venture chilled everything out and revealed Cox to be a much more interesting songwriter than you would gather from Cryptograms. Now comes Microcastle: it's finally the album that will start converting the skeptics (they say that every time, right?). The album is a lot more song-oriented than Cryptograms, and while it maintains the icy sheen of the Atlas Sound record, it takes it a couple steps further....full text |
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