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	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	ATP
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...according to our Brian on 02 February 2007.

DEERHOOF are back with their latest jazz spaz pop opus, 'Friend Opportunity' is here. Usual array of barmy multi segmented rock songs with quirky Japanese lady cooing & twittering ad libs & random childlike poetry over a hotwired dragster of schizophrenic space prog & eccentric pop. With fans such as Thom Yorke praising their unhinged & occasionally impenetrable nuttiness, you can't go wrong. There's obvious nods to some of the psychedelic folk rock & boffin rockof the 70s, given a contemporary pop twist that delivers a fair share of thrills & spills. They're obviously kindred spirits of Super Furry Animals in their quest for a trippy, original music that confuses as much as it unites & the indulgences are many yet rendered plausible in their briefness. Experimental eyt compulsive. I think the highlight of their career so far has been the 'Green Cosmos' EP, but for the already converted, this is another fine Deerhoof album!

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What their label says...

There are bands I look up to. Like I look up to the Black Keys. I’m really excited about Deerhoof. Liars, they’re fucking great." Thom Yorke (Pitchfork)
Popping up all over 2006 music news like a breath of fresh air, Deerhoof headlined the best-attended New York free concert of the summer, and becomes Danielson’s backing band on the much celebrated ‘Ships’. Saunier’s
production work appears on Xiu Xiu’s acclaimed album ‘The Air Force’, and meanwhile they are handpicked for two of 2006’s most coveted summer tours, with The Flaming Lips and Radiohead.
‘Friend Opportunity’ is a feat of reinvention that could only come from artists willing to rethink everything. Even though Deerhoof have been around a long time, they’re still restless, still hungry for the rush of the new. Not
coincidentally, and fortunately for Deerhoof, they’ve attracted a burgeoning following who absolutely love to be challenged - from album to album, from song to song, from moment to moment. ‘Friend Opportunity’ will not
disappoint them. Or anyone else.
Songs like ‘The Perfect Me’ have three or four sections of heart-stopping epiphanies of the sublime; ‘Matchbook Seeks Maniac’ pulls a ‘99 Luftballoons’ breakdown move in the middle, rocks a Brahms interval in the pop-narcotic chorus, and the Beach Boys and the Who are all over the mix. ‘Believe E.S.P.’ opens with Deerhoof’s take on get-down funky slinkopation but the next passage sounds like something out of Palestrina, and so many of these songs are like a scenic drive that flows seamlessly from one astonishing vista to the next, from wide, shimmering deserts to foggy
canyons to staggering, snow-peaked mountaintops.

Tracklist:
1. The Perfect Me  2. +81  3. Believe E.S.P.  4. The Galaxist  5. Choco Fight  6. Whither The Invisible Birds?  7. Cast Off Crown  8. Kidz Are So Small  9. Matchbook Seeks Maniac  10. Look Away