Deerhunter make a record about the joy of early music discovery, and in revisiting that youthful enthusiasm, they brilliantly rekindle it.
Halcyon Digest is a record about the joy of music discovery, the thrill of listening for the first time to a potential future favourite, and that sense of boundless possibility when you're still innocent of indie-mainstream politics and your personal canon is far from set. In revisiting that youthful enthusiasm, Deerhunter brilliantly rekindle it, and the result meets Microcastle/Weird Era (Cont.) as the band's most exhilarating work to date. Whether those halcyon days were real or just idealized doesn't matter. With producer Ben Allen, who lent a bass-heavy sheen to Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion, these four guys-- lead singer Bradford Cox, singer/guitarist Lockett Pundt, bass player Josh Fauver, and drummer Moses Archuleta-- have created a seamless album of startling emotional clarity.
Tracklisting
- Earthquake
- Don't Cry
- Revival
- Sailing
- Memory Boy
- Desire Lines
- Basement Scene
- Fountain Stairs
- Helicopter
- Coronado
- He Would Have Laughed
