Video: Deerhunter Live at Noise Pop 2009 (Full set)

Deerhunter’s hour-long set* from last week’s Noise Pop festival, featuring four new songs, all recorded in high quality.

Previous posts: I’ll Be Your Mirror: An Interview with Bradford Cox

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I’ll Be Your Mirror: An Interview with Bradford Cox

Dead band members, armed robbery, comas, confused sexuality, ‘poop journals’, self-loathing, child abuse, genetic disorders, nervous breakdowns and walkouts – this is the context that framed Deerhunter’s output in 2007. The music may have been good enough to stand on its own but, whether the listener was interested or not, it came with side stories.

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Video: Deerhunter – Microcastle

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Jay Reatard – Fluorescent Grey

Jay Reatard – Fluorescent Grey

This is a cover of my favourite Deerhunter song, which is part of an ongoing ‘covers swap’ series by Jay Reatard for the Matador label. I’m not sure about the faux-English accent here, but what he has done with the now acoustic ‘people never know’ breakdown is interesting. The flip side of the 7″ release is Deerhuner taking on Reatard’s “Oh It’s Such a Shame” from Blood Visions.

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Song of the Day: Deerhunter – ‘Never Stops’

Deerhunter – ‘Never Stops’

I have mixed feelings about posting this track. When I was leaving the Primavera site one night last week in Barcelona, I came across Bradford Cox slumped outside his hotel. He had literally just found out that Deerhunter’s new album Microcastle had been leaked five months in advance. It was a slightly troubling sight that really hammered home the message about illegal downloading.

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Three Mix CDs courtesy of Animal Collective

Panda Bear, Geologist and Avey Tare have all compile their own personal ‘micromixes’, available to download over at Bradford Cox’s Deerhunter blog. Don’t miss them!

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Video: Atlas Sound – ‘My Car’

Fan made video for ‘My Car’ by Bradford Cox aka Atlas Sound. From the Things I’ll Miss EP, available for free download.

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Liars – (Self-titled)

As one of the best albums of 2007, much of the attention that Liars’ fourth (and, arguably, best) album received centered on how the band had finally forsaken their conceptual efforts to simply focus on the art of the song, and the diversity that yet another stylistic U-turn displayed. No experimental electronic music with elaborate titles, just stripped down, visceral rock-pop with refined song structures.

But beyond the straight-ahead thrusts of the singles, the real heart of this album lies in two Aaron Helphill-penned tunes that showcase his incredible songwriting talents…

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Atlas Sound – ‘Oliver’

Atlas Sound – Oliver 

The blog of Bradford Cox (Deerhunter/Atlas Sound) is the perfect example of how music and one’s personal life can seamlessly co-exist. With a refreshing lack of self-censorship, Cox uses it not only as a place to engage directly with fans but also as an outlet for his prolific recording. The singer’s sleepless nights often see him uploading whole EPs of fresh material as soon as they’ve been recorded; requested cover versions, mixtapes and even songs inspired by individual fans (such as ‘Oliver’, above) all supplement the often harrowing musings they appear alongside.

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Top 10 Albums of 2007: #4 Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey / Cryptograms

Listen to the studio version:

Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey

‘Cryptograms’ seemed to split a lot of people right down the middle and, funnily enough, it is a record of vastly different sides

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