New Wax Atlanta's Deerhunter crafts beautifully damaged pop songs on their third full-length album Microcastle, which was just made available as a physical release (it's been on iTunes since August). The songs are roughed up with the same garage-rock aesthetic we'd come to expect from the band, but at its core, the album is more direct and contains less experimental art-noise. Cartoonish...
Whether you call it growing up, maturing or simply learning the act of good showmanship, I have to say that the Bradford Cox that was on stage at Lee's Palace on Wednesday night was significantly different than the one that I read about from the last time Deerhunter was in town. Gone were the dresses and general audience alienation and, in its place was a charismatic and appreciative frontman...
Taken from Deerhunter's Microcastle LP, "Nothing Ever Happened" is a speeding, stomping, rhythmically fierce piece of art that's unlike much of Bradford Cox and co.'s usual resume. It also makes it one of the more accessible tunes that Deerhunter has...