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DEERHOOF - The Runners Four
| CokeMachineGlow | | A terrific boon for its Cliff Notes guide to music history, Allmusic.com is one of the sites I tend to visit on a daily basis, whether it’s to look up obscure band members, get album art for iTunes, remember track lists or read enough about a band to pretend I’ve heard them before. I don’t normally pay too much attention to their actual reviews, but it’s hard to ignore the site’s authorative-looking star rating system. If an album achieves perfection, five stars from AMG, it looks somehow official and kind of daunting....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | Deerhoof's music is one big, beautiful mess, mixing frolicking with mayhem. The band's rhythms may at times be rowdy and half-assed, but when the squeaky vocals of lead singer and bassist Satomi Matsuzaki are thrown in, everything seems to make sense. The band is more restrained on, The Runners Four, and its melodies are more jagged than they have been in the past, but this band is still doing things its own way....full text |
| | ShakingThrough | | Deerhoof has it backwards. Its earlier, mondo-prog releases ran roughly thirty minutes yet possessed the density of albums twice as long. The Runners Four, by contrast, is twice as long yet is comprised of short pop tunes. Not that the stylistically hyperactive San Francisco quartet will ever be confused with manufactured, American Idol-style top 40 confections....full text |
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