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| Pitchfork |
 Everybody's dying just to get the disease. Confidential to the celebs in surgical masks: If there's a real pandemic, we're all already born with it. No, not swine flu, bird flu, monkey pox, SARS, or West Nile virus. Not even anthrax, that post-9/11, pre-Iraq War worry most people appeared to forget overnight. The names of the diseases may change, but the panics they generate all represent the same thing: We're gonna die. And we couldn't be more terrified.It isn't clear whether My Bloody Valentine will get their long-delayed reissues out before the CD dies; if current patterns hold though, Loveless lovers Deerhunter will have released more than enough spaced-out dominance. Many of their songs change drastically from online demo to final incarnation, but Atlanta's noise-pop lightning rods put it all out there. As with Lil Wayne and his workload, it's as if they sense their time here is limited. Please god, nobody mention Ryan Adams. Although the total output by Deerhunter and various side projects can be uneven, the full band's official Kranky releases have rarely been less than face-melting. Rainwater Cassette Exchange is the fourth Deerhunter-related release on the label since October-- including last year's Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. album pairing plus guitarist Lockett Pundt's recent debut as Lotus Plaza, The Floodlight Collective-- and it's also maybe the slightest to bear the Deerhunter name. Now you hear it, now you don't. What was I just listening to again?...full text |
| Elbo |
| Marfan Indie Darling Bradford Cox and co. are back less than 8 months after their 2008 double-LP magnum opus (Microcastle / Weird Era) with the Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP ( available as of Monday in MP3 format ; June 8 on CD and Vinyl). I ask you, is the cliché of the lazy musician a thing of the past? Deerhunter has barely paused to catch a breath before jetting off for their European / Japanese / South-Pacific tour but somehow managed to record one helluva cute EP sometime between March and April. [...]...full text |
| Canberra |
| Release date: 18 May 2009 (Kranky) Deerhunter (not to be confused with Deerhoof, Caribou, Grizzly Bear, or anyone else of a North American mammal/electro-punk-ambient persuasion) are a strange band with a tumultuous history. They've preferred to release EPs and limited-edition cassettes and vinyls rather than full albums, and have had a rotation of band members since their inception. Rainwater Cassette Exchange is the title of a new EP (though strangely enough, the EP isn't a cassette release). With the band pared back to four members and an essentially standard indie-rock setup with a few frills, Rainwater Cassette Exchange is a peculiar blend. 1960's surf-rock melodies are stretched and dilated over muted guitar and drums. The whole recording seems to be too quiet, and Bradford Cox's vocals are especially indistinct. It doesn't help that Cox (obviously belonging to the school of thought that singers should have great mystique) can't bring himself to enunciate a single, intelligible word. Deerhunter may well be a good band, but you wouldn't know, because you might as well be listening to them from the other side of an apartment wall....full text |
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