What you say
No-one has reviewed Friend Opportunity by Deerhoof yet.
What we say
 This record left our Brian feeling happy.
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!
What the 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 |
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