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January 6, 2009

New Dan Deacon - "Get Older"

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Yesterday we took a look at Dan's shady forest/bright tent album art for his forthcoming Bromst, compared in turns by you guys to past covers from Gossip Girl-fave Department Of Eagles and cannabis-fave Phish. You guys have a lot of reference points. And you won't need any of them on this first listen from the album: "Get Older" is a Dan Deacon song through and through, with some acoustic instrumentation (drums, marimba) rounding out the usual electro whiplash.

Bromst is out 3/24 via Carpark. If that's too long to wait for new Deacon, Dan's got a split 12" with Adventure, out 1/27, also via Carpark. It features "Get Older" as well as non-Bromst tune "Cave Birth."

[Pic from Dan Deacon @ a warehouse in Chicago 7/16/07.]

Posted at 9:26 AM by amrit
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j0shsm1th

i dig this track, pumped for bromst

Posted by: j0shsm1th profile link at 01/06/09 9:51 AM | Reply
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A Fant TND

I'm hearing this LP is going to be "darker," but this song is like an orgy of neon colors.

Posted by: A Fant TND profile link at 01/06/09 11:15 AM | Reply
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great song

Posted by: porkchop profile link at 01/06/09 11:31 AM | Reply
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My eardrums are bleeding. Thanks, dork.

Posted by: chewy at 01/06/09 11:51 AM | Reply
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Sexual Robotics

At 1:24 I couldn't take any more... I can only imagine how exhausting 6:29 of this would be.

That's 389 seconds.

Posted by: Sexual Robotics profile link at 01/06/09 1:05 PM | Reply
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I agree with a minute and a half. It started out sounding kinda cool, but then just gets super repetitive and noisy.

Posted by: Benjfier profile link in reply to Sexual Robotics's comment at 01/06/09 6:27 PM | Reply
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A. This is Dan Deacon, its supposed to make your ears bleed.
B. I think I heard this live, but my ears are still bleeding.
C. I love it.
and, Dude, seriously, if you can't take this, go suck on some Bon Iver like everyone else. Leave the quality tunes to those brave enough to continue listening.

Posted by: kingofkenya at 01/06/09 5:42 PM | Reply
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Sexual Robotics

Thank you for the suggestion, and yes, I have been feeling rather cowardly as of late. ;)

Posted by: Sexual Robotics profile link in reply to kingofkenya's comment at 01/06/09 10:43 PM | Reply
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i dig this track a lot. but i have also heard other tracks off the album as well that are even better. the "new direction" seems to be more of a logical "evolution" or "maturation" than a drastic shift. just wait to hear the album!

also, a version of cave birth was on the baltimore round robin compilation which you can download here: http://www.baltimoreroundrobin.com/ not sure whether it will be the exact same version on the split, but its certainly an odd track.

Posted by: DonutBrother at 01/06/09 6:00 PM | Reply
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can we just go back to talking about animal collective? this is kinda annoying. although it isn't AS annoying as his older stuff.

Posted by: ummmm at 01/06/09 8:18 PM | Reply
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I guess smashing crayolas and nintendo together is Deacon's conception of being "dark."

Posted by: glazzy at 01/06/09 10:08 PM | Reply
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this is so rad

Posted by: lachlan at 01/17/09 9:27 PM | Reply
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this makes my brain feel like a slurpee

Posted by: indigo.stars profile link at 01/18/09 3:04 AM | Reply
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this makes my brain feel like a slurpee
i only recently found out about dan deacon and i already believe hes a god among mortals.

Posted by: indigo.stars profile link at 01/18/09 3:06 AM | Reply
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