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Recommended by us on 27th January 2011
...according to our Dave on Thu 27 Jan, 2011.
The tenth studio album from Deerhoof is yet another classic. Its been almost three years since the last one "Offend Maggie" blessed your furry earholes and that's a long time in music. Then again a week is allegedly a long time in politics so it must seem like an age to any Deerhoof fans. They remain as creative and hard to get into as ever. Deerhoof aren't everyone's cup of tea, what with their off kilter time signatures and the like. I reckon these guys are always doing really amazing things. They could easily just make bland "Quirk" singles or summat and watch the pennies trickle in yet they constantly challenge and excite. They have some really good song ideas at their disposal. One minute they will have shredded your mind with some searing guitar lines like on the excellent "Must Fight Current" and next second they throw some calypso madness into your face. It's all really good and the songs are just quality. The musicianship is, as always, totally interesting and unique. They scurry off in all directions yet have great amounts of pop suss. Its a rare delight. They still manage to write songs that are catchy and hold your attention. It's a right journey. My favorite tracks are "I did Crimes For You" and "Super Duper Rescue Heads" which if I'm correct is gonna be their new single. Some bands are good...not as good as Deerhoof though. This album is great and you WILL BUY IT!!! (only if you like Deerhoof). 100% awesome..7 out of 10 etc.....
Deerhoof vs Evil documents the bands' 'coming-of-age'. The result is polished, blissfully exuberant, and huge-
sounding. Going DIY meant freedom to reinvent themselves, playing each others' instruments, altering those instruments
so drastically as to be unrecognizable, (those aren't Joanna Newsom or Konono No. 1 samples, those are John and Ed's
guitars), and generally splashing their sonic colors into the most unexpected combinations.
To document their musical "coming-of-age" the band members could only trust themselves. Besides their cover of an
obscure Greek film soundtrack instrumental ("Let's Dance the Jet"), and a song done for NY artist Adam Pendleton's
documentary film installation BAND ("I Did Crimes for You"), these songs were completely self-recorded, mixed and
mastered in practice spaces and basements with no engineers or outside input.
1. Qui Dorm, Només Somia
2. Behold a Marvel in the Darkness
3. The Merry Barracks
4. No One Asked to Dance
5. Let’s Dance the Jet
6. Super Duper Rescue Heads
7. Must Fight Current
8. Secret Mobilization
9. Hey I Can
10. C’Moon
11. I Did Crimes for You
12. Almost Everyone, Almost Always
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