if you're band isn't objectively fucking amazing (or you're Mark E. Smith) you don't have the right to act like an arrogant prick in interviews... they haven't earned that yet..

this bands new name is QUEERHUNTER...no joke at least for one release

split with a certain band really soon...

One complaint:

On Cryptograms, they feel the need to establish that they are a stoner band by having the lighter going off and the inhaling sound at the beginning of 'Spring Hall Convert', its not like we don't get that you smoke pot.

Its painfully obvious in interviews where the singer talks about 'lyrics bleeding into the music' as being something that turns him on, and its just painfully obvious that its also just a masking of his stoner lyrics which will never be 'inpenetrable' no matter how barried in the mix they are -- they are still boring stoner lyrics at times.

Plus the drummer talks about how he works at american apparel so it sort of seals the whole deal for me as this band coming across as more scenester then sincere.

LEAVE DEERHUNTER ALONE!!!

microcastle came out. pitchfork gave it a 9.2.. is it THAT good?

And Tiny Mix Tapes gave it a 5 / 5
It must be really good, I wonder if I won't go to the shop today and buy it

I've heard mixed reviews on this one and I'm still asking myself if I should buy it or not.

"microcastle" is pretty good, really poppy. i wanna hear the bonus dics that came with it.

Mehhhhhhhhhh...

I'm dying to hear it. I dnt really care about the hip factor or whatever. I really, really like the band. And I loved the Atlas Sound album from earlier this year.

I liked Cryptograms quite a bit. I'm looking forward to hearing the new one.

Dont. Dont, dont, dont believe the hype. 'agoraphobia' is a decent enough song, the title track and 'nothing ever happens' are sorta fun to listen to but the rest is straight garbage. the singer said it himself. "it's for kids just getting over my chemical romance."

Have both cryptograms and the EP. I bought crypograms, thinking this was something I´d really enjoy, (after all, it´s on kranky), but found it to be quite boring. I don´t know, it just seems so directionless. But I really like the flourucent grey EP. Haven´t heard the new one yet.

I listened to the album yesterday, I think it was really good. I'll buy it today

well whatever y'alls thinks... I still like them a lot. Gonna get the new one.

ps Adam... I dnt like Coldplay or Interpol.

I was kind of kidding.

But kind of not.

I know.

I'm just saying this... Deerhunter are not about to "save rock n roll" or any shit like that. They are not revolutionary. They're not even doing something new or unheard of. But they are good. And they are interesting. And they are willing to take some chances. I also respect the warts-n-all approach. Always have. Plus, I just really loved CRYPTOGRAMS. Regardless of what the press or hipsters said about that record, the bottom line is that I JUST KEPT ON LISTENING TO IT over and over. And that is the real test in my book. I still love it.

Sure, nothing wrong with that. It's a pretty good record.

It hits the spot. Still prefer the Fluorescent Grey EP. Bradford intrigues me, even if he's been twattish in the past.

shit that was ROUGH
hahahahhaa

i've never listened to them and would like to as my best pal recommended them strongly. So i'm-a-gonna hunt.

o doodz i'm so good
I swear NO PUN WAS INTENDED either in the comment or the pic above.
jeez i amaze myself. i'm so RELEVANT.

So I pretty much can not stop listening to Microcastle. I think it's great. Yes it's a lot poppier or whatever. But it's an excellent, solid album. I feel like with CRYPTOGRAMS it was about the space around the songs. And on this one it's like 'ok, how much structure can we cram into one song?' It's crazy good.

They at times remind me of like an ambient Cramps or something, like sorta Gothic Rockabilly with some beautiful use of Atmosphere. "Flourescent Grey" was great for sure, the new one is pretty good, but not gonna end up on my best of list. They have come a long fuckin way from "Turn it Up Faggot" though, that record was a piece of shit.

Yeah, I only listened to TURN IT UP once... but really I think the new one is excellent. Definitely on my best of 08 list. CRYTPO made it to my best of 07, and yet I thought it unlikely they'd do it again. But honestly I've loved this and the Atlas Sound record this year. So go figure.

I got to get the new one

Rob, I kind of bought it thinking "I'm probably gonna hate this and realize that Cryptograms was a fluke and never listen to Deerhunter again..." but it's f'ing great.

"Nothing Ever Happened" is GREAT

Yeah it is. The whole album is full of these sorts of melodies that just get stuck in yr head.

I think they rip Twin Peaks' soundtrack in a terrible way.

Can't wait to buy Microcastle, but I'm trying to decide whether to hold out for the wax...

I must agree that a lot of the guitar tones, and even some melodies do remind me of Twin Peaks stuff. BUT I can not agree that it's "in a terrible way."

I've had the chance to see them live on more than one occasion, but never have.

Strong band, overall.

I think they're alright. Not a fan of them. I've seen them twice. First they opened for Circa Survive. They were alright, but then the band Ours played after them and they were so bad so that made the deer hunter sound good i guess. Second time I saw them, they opened for the fall of troy and a bunch of people were booing them. They don't sound bad, just too boring for me.

Haha. Fall of Troy fans should boo. Deerhunter, like 'em or not, will never write a song as good as F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X...

I'm kinda dissapointed, was really looking forward to this record.
Cryptograms/fluorescent had some incredible songs, but this I don't like. I can't understand the appeal, there are no real hooks, nothing happens in the songs, it even aren't good pop songs. Weird era cont. is slightly better upon first listen but still nothing really special.
Maybe I just don't get it

hahahaha the fall of troy.. brings back so many memories :D

That's really weird to me. Bare in mind that I loved CRYPTOGRAMS, but my feeling on MICROCASTLE is that each song is loaded with hooks. Like I feel like the band tried to fit as many hooks into each track as possible. I mean, if you dnt like it, you dnt like it. That's fine. It IS a very different record than CRYPTO, but I definitely don't see how you dont hear any hooks in there. To me it's totally a Deerhunter pop album.

Yeah it sure is a deerhunter pop album, and I like pop albums, but this seems like really safe pop to me, just regular chord patterns and conventional scales, without special chords or a few notes that give you goosebumps like on cryptograms, the only thing that can do that here is this quiet - loudapproach.
But I really want to like it, maybe I should listen to it some more

You should. I mean, I get what yr saying, but some times a song doesnt need a "special chord" and can use a conventional scale, and just be nothing more than a really great song.