The American rock band Deerhunter just sent out an email to let us know that they have a new album ready to go, one they’ll be releasing in just a month and a half. The album, their fifth, is entitled Monomania, and Bradford Cox and Nicolas Vernhes recorded it in Brooklyn, on multiple eight-tracks, earlier this year. In a cryptic note, the band calls the album “NOCTURNAL GARAGE,” which is a pretty great genre descriptor, and claim that it’s “avant garde(?) but only in context not form (original intent of avant garde (1912-59) / before logic: FOG MACHINE / LEATHER / NEON.” This makes sense! You will find the tracklist below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Neon Junkyard”
02 “Leather Jacket II”
03 “The Missing”
04 “Pensacola”
05 “Dream Captain”
06 “Blue Agent”
07 “T.H.M.”
08 “Sleepwalking”
09 “Back To The Middle”
10 “Monomania”
11 “Nitebike”
12 “Punk (La Vie Antérieure)”
Monomania is out 5/7 on 4AD.
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This and the announcement from the Sigur Rós camp pushed today from “good day” into “great day” territory.
I told you about that last Sunday
http://stereogum.com/1290022/the-2020-experience-vol-2-out-in-november/news/comment-page-1/#comment-8057482
not that I care about Deer Hunters i nthe slightest, mind. i just know where to find information prior to official press releases, yeah.. still no word about Daft Punk, no, if you’re wondering
yes, it’s totally makes sense. Punk (La Vie Antérieure) my ass. pretentiosu wankers. style over substance. and their frontman is clearly mentally ill guy. remember that my sharona story. he’s mental
Go away. You are the worst.
I know
DOWNVOTES WHERE ARE YOU
Well, copy_paster_cat runs Stereogum now, so we will not be getting the downvotes back :(
IT HAS SENT MY WORLD INTO TURMOIL! I don’t understand what the popular sentiment is now so I don’t know what’s funny and what isn’t!!!
These past few days have provided me with so many reasons to fist pump the sky: The National, Sigur Ros, and now Deerhunter. It’s all just so great!
can someone please explain The National to me?! i just don’t get it. they seem so very bland and boring and unremarkable to me. i must be missing something
I feel the same way, it’s okay.
It’s a simple answer, but for me, I have to be in the mood. When I’m in a The National mood, they’re totally sublime, but if I’m not, they don’t quite fit.
They’re great, consistent songwriters and they put on a hell of a show. Fuckin sucks that that registers as “bland” nowadays. Also Matt Berninger is pretty much the best frontman in the game atm.
what would you say is their best song?
also, i say this without having heard/seen more than a couple of the national performances on youtube, but, Matt Berninger is not the best frontman today by a thousand miles.
This is exciting. You never know what you’re going to get with Bradford.
After a slow start 2013 seems to picking up big time. The Strokes, Phoenix, The National, The Knife, Deerhunter, Kurt Vile, Vampire Weekend, James Blake, Wavves, Iron & Wine. And those are just in the next two months.
+Yeah Yeah Yeahs
+Queens of the MOTHER FUCKING STONE AGE!
Mikal Cronin! Or am I the only person excited for that one? Oh well.
I think I’ve listened to (most of) the full Deerhunter ouevre start to finish about five times in the last week. Just been on a real Deerhunter kick for some reason, and really starting to enjoy Cryptograms and Weird Era Ctd. a lot more than I have in the past. This news comes at just the right time. Very pumped for this, and hopefully a tour.
I’m sure you are but just in case: make sure you’re listening to Fluorescent Grey EP right after Cryptograms. Not only was the EP released as the D-Side on the Cryptograms vinyl, the EP has a very strong tie in to the album.
I spoke with Josh (the original bassist, now out of the band apparently) at the Stereogum SXSW party in 2011 about Cryptograms. He told me that they originally thought about releasing Cryptograms as one album ending on “Red Ink” and then from “Spring Hall Convert” to the end plus Fluorescent Grey EP as another album. They ended up going a different way, but it’s rare that a band admits an EP was actually more a part of the original LP instead of just a random batch of songs.
Oh! If you couldn’t tell, Cryptograms is one of my all-time favorite records. Really excited for Monomania.
I play them on Google Music in my office, and they’re listed chronologically, so I’ve just been going through the whole thing start to finish. I just picked up the EPs a couple weeks ago and I’m really digging them. I sort of prefer the Microstle and into Halcyon period, so Rainwater Cassette Exchange is right up my alley. I got into them around Halcyon Digest a few years ago and went back to listen the rest.
Didn’t realize Josh wasn’t in the band anymore. Wonder if they’ll continue to play Nothing Ever Happened, since he reportedly wrote most of it. Wikipedia already lists him as a past member. :(
Damn! Not only do I absolutely love “Cryptograms,” but I really loved that dude’s bass playing. :-(
so excellent. an album starting with Spring Hall Convert and ending with the FG EP makes SO much sense – it would’ve been much more of a POP album than Cryptograms is now (although it’s still incredible)..
a very cool insight into one of the most exciting and chaotic times for the band.. thanks
You’re welcome. I saw Josh standing around and went up to him and said, “Hey, do you play bass?” (clever eh?)
him: “Yeah.”
Me: “Did you help write Octet?”
him: “yes…”
Me: “Thank You so much. That is one of my favorite songs in the world.”
Then he spilled the beans. Great conversation. It’s interesting, because at that point I had heard people mention that at least one guy in Deerhunter didn’t like being in the band, and I’d of guessed it was Josh (based on his expression during live shows). But after talking to him he seemed so nice and genuine that I changed my mind. Now this… it’s sad. When I saw them up close at Primavera the same year I was looking right at him and he waved back at me. Did he remember me? I dunno, maybe he was just being nice.
Will definitely miss you Josh. Because yes, he sure did write “Nothing Ever Happened” and that bass line on “Octet”? At least I know who is responsible now.
Fantastic news, one of my favorite bands. Sad news about Josh Fauver, though. Hopefully it was amicable.
I heard the band sorted through 250 songs for this album.
I believe it – just the amount of unofficial Deerhunter/Atlas Sound tracks from their blog is redonk.
In case you missed this article last month, supposedly this album is “very avant-garde” – http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/02/deerhunter-recording-very-avant-garde-new-studio-album/
This about sums it up for me.
http://imgur.com/y81pHeX