More expansive than Friend Opportunity, not quite as sprawling as The Runners Four, Offend Maggie is among Deerhoof's most balanced albums. However, that doesn't convey the sense of adventure that courses through every track. "The Tears and Music of Love" begins the album with emphatic guitars that turn mischievous and a shape-shifting melody that keeps changing right up to the song's end. Offend Maggie is one of Deerhoof's most riff-filled albums since Apple O', thanks to the addition of second guitarist Edward Rodriguez to the fold: power chords set off the flute-like purity of Satomi Matsuzaki's voice on "My Purple Past," and the acoustic strumming on "Don't Get Born" makes its brevity all the more striking. The band brings both of theses sounds together brilliantly on "Offend Maggie" itself, which moves from a briskly lilting acoustic figure that recalls a sped-up John Fahey or Ali Farka Touré to plugged-in chugging, while Matsuzaki sings about a telemarketing romance gone wrong over rollicking drums. That Deerhoof can pack so much appeal and inventiveness into two minutes shows, once again, that they don't so much "go pop" as remake pop in their own image.
Elsewhere, Offend Maggie gives equal time to the charming but not too cutesy Deerhoof with the hyper-expressive "Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back," where Matsuzaki becomes the ball as she describes how the players dance and weave on the court, and "Snoopy Waves," which buries its bubblegummy melody under drums and distortion. The more challenging Deerhoof surfaces on "Eaguru Guru," which name-checks the German prog rock band Guru Guru and nods to prog with its massive keyboards and guitars, intricate rhythms, and suite-like movements. "Fresh Born"'s towering bassline and spiraling guitars make it Deerhoof's version of funk-rock, while "This Is God Speaking"'s distorted vocals and rinky-dink electronics sound like an homage to Experimental Dental School. The introspective Deerhoof get their due on "Family of Others," where a spooky intro gives way to John Dieterich's vocal harmonies, rippling guitars, and meditations on interconnectedness, and on "Jagged Fruit"'s jazzy, moody finality. While Offend Maggie isn't as dramatic a change from what came before it as Friend Opportunity and The Runners Four were, its subtler changes and elaborations make it far from predictable -- other than that, it's another consistently interesting Deerhoof album.
I usually don't blog much (too lazy, but I must give another post for Deerhoof...The mighty Deerhoof came to Stuttgart the other night and gave a fantanstic show. This was the first show from them for me and hopefully not the last time I get a chance to catch them. The weather was unusually humid during the show and the steam was pouring off the stage (they were literally the Hottest Band on ...
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This tiny, hairy fella will be the envy of the indie crowd because not only he's been neatly groom to assist Greg the octopus drummer, his syncopation and relaxed sauntering technique works hand in hand to Satomi's gentle, naive vocals. He is the fifth member of Deerhoof, Fresh Born!This track was first released as sheet music, promoting the music network to make their mark onto Deerhoof's late...
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In this age of disposable art and instant gratification we seem to ask a lot of our artists. Whether it's for a slight change with each progressive step or some sort of growth it seems to be a lot to ask of a band or an artist at any level of their career. At some point we have to realize that "old dogs" really aren't going to be learning any new tricks and we must decide whether the merits of
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Deerhoof, longtime favorites of mine, have a new album coming out tomorrow. It's called Offend Maggie , and will be released via Kill Rock Stars. It's hard for me to review a Deerhoof record without comparing it to their past work, since I've listened to their older albums so many times. For instance, as I listened through to Offend Maggie , I couldn't help but think that it sounded more r...
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San Fran indie-art-noise-rockers Deerhoof have a new album, Offend Maggie , coming next week via Kill Rock Stars . I heard the band allowed fans to download a written score of the album in advance, allowing them to interpret or simply imagine what the songs would sound like before actually hearing them. Even if it's just one song, that kind of creativity is one thing Deerhoof has never lacke...
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Deerhoof has released an onslaught of video and mp3 action over the last month, in preparation for their Offend Maggie record, due out October 7th. Their second video in the last few weeks, "Fresh Born" is here for your pleasure....
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8/10 Deerhoof are here to drive us mad once again. Tell me a band which is both stupid and cool,...
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This video for "Fresh Born" was shot and directed in Japan by band friend Mitch (who costars here as the TV announcer) and also features a brief appearance by Japanese rappers 54-71 miming to another new Hoof tune. Lastly there is a baseball bat-wielding gorilla contributed by "Milk Man" artist Ken Kagami. The video was edited by Mitch and Greg Saunier.The mp3 for "Fresh Born" is also now avail...
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Not a photo of Deerhoof in Danbury I'm way excited for Deerhoof's new record Offend Maggie. To celebrate, here's a bootleg of one of their most recent shows, complete with MANY new songs! Enjoy! Links to new songs removed by request Deerhoof live in Danbury, CT 7.16.08 MP3: Deerhoof - Fresh Born * MP3: Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart MP3: [...]~~
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offend maggieHere's the first song to surface from Deerhoof's highly-anticipated new record. Offend Maggie's title track suggests a sweeter, gentler, more subdued and accessible Deerhoof. Let's hope that's not the case, although this is a nice little ditty (if a little too short). mp3:deerhoof :: offend maggie(via)
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Deerhoof have released yet another new video, this time for "Chandelier Searchlight " . The new record, Offend Maggie , is out now via Kill Rock Stars. The video is really artsy. Reminds me of the paper puppets my uncle and I used to make late in the summer . Deerhoof really defines their style with Chandelier Searchlight. I loves me some Chandelier.
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Deerhoof, not to be confused with Deerhunter, which I used to do early on, Deerhoof definitely falls into that category of local 'experimental' bands. Like most bands in this genre, I usually have one of two reactions - 1) the band is being weird for the sake of being weird or 2) I'm intrigued by the [...]
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So Shark Party has now joined the MOG Music Network, which means even more people are coming to the site, as evidenced by the new deluge of downloads and band e-mails I've been getting. It's certainly exciting, but a bit scary since now, people are, you know, reading and stuff. On another note, I recently had one of my entries from October ("Strange New Strange", featuring TV On the Radio, Sh...
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San Fran indie-art-noise-rockers Deerhoof have a new album, Offend Maggie , coming next week via Kill Rock Stars . I heard the band allowed fans to download a written score of the album in advance, allowing them to interpret or simply imagine what the songs would sound like before actually hearing them. Even if it's just one song, that kind of creativity is one thing Deerhoof has never lacke...
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WTF?sorry but its like listening and watching a train wreck...gotta check it again...yep feel the same....lol
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I'm really exited about the Deerhoof live video and interview clips now up on MOG here: http://mog.com/mogtv/deerhoof_1 The interview was conducted by Mogger (and pro journalist) Jenny Tatone at the Wonder Ballroom late last year, with a little help from myself. That's why Deerhoof's Greg Saunier is joking about "MOG Michael" at the beginning of this clip: http://mog.com/mogtv/deerhoof_2 Both t...
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Deerhoof have a new album due out Oct. 7 titled "Offend Maggie," and this is the title track.
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... to follow up on (uh, tangentially) my best music of the year list, here were my favorite movies of 2008, in order more or less:1. Che Parts 1 & 2I just feel the need to explain something about Che. Don't believe any of the criticism. None of it. Not any of it. Seriously. Soderbergh is a spotty director; you'll hear no argument from me. But even in some of his lesser films he's shown why he'...
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The staff of Paper Thin Walls has done a funny thing and recorded their version of one of our new songs from our sheet music, not having heard our version. They wrote an article about it and had me write a review of their version. The whole sheet music project continues to amaze me, people are sending such incredible takes on our song. Every one is different, I wouldnt know where to start as fa...
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Hi everyone, we're releasing one of the songs from our record "Offend Maggie" that comes out in October. But we're not releasing an mp3 of it yet, we're only releasing the sheet music. The song is called "Fresh Born" and you can see/download the sheet music here. You can record your own version of the song and we will post it for everyone to hear! You can get to know the song without even heari...
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Art noise champs Deerhoof new video off 2008's Offend Maggie directed by Asha Schechter. Singer Satomi Matsuzaki screams and moans are as lovely as frightening.Pigeons and Planes
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--- - |- MP3: Deerhoof - Offend Maggie Very excited for this one: the new Deerhoof record "Offend Maggie" drops in the States October 7th from Kill Rock Stars. Today the blog family has been passing the title track around our dinner table and boy is it delicious! It's a quickie and starts off with some pretty sweet acoustic guitar work before exploding into the charm and sophisticatio...
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This tiny, hairy fella will be the envy of the indie crowd because not only he's been neatly groom to assist Greg the octopus drummer, his syncopation and relaxed sauntering technique works hand in hand to Satomi's gentle, naive vocals. He is the fifth member of Deerhoof, Fresh Born!This track was first released as sheet music, promoting the music network to make their mark onto Deerhoof's late...
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Well, I finally got around to getting the latest Deerhoof (Offend Maggie)...not sure how missed it when it came out a few months back..Once again, I am amazed by the Mighty Deerhoof!!! Just as thought their last CD (Friend Opportunity) was one of their best...Offend Maggie may be even be better...I like almost every song, and Really Digg Eaguru Guru!!Cheers to Deerhoof!
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| 1 The Tears and Music of Love |
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| 2 Chandelier Searchlight |
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| 3 Buck and Judy |
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| 4 Snoopy Waves |
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| 5 Offend Maggie |
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| 6 Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back |
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| 7 Don't Get Born |
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| 8 My Purple Past |
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| 9 Family of Others |
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| 10 Fresh Born |
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| 11 Eaguru Guru |
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| 12 This Is God Speaking |
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| 13 Numina O |
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| 14 Jagged Fruit |
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