It's a quiet old week for singles this week as the run up to the day when Santa
drops a load of crap presents down your chimney for you to be hideously
disappointed with on xmas day. So we rummaged through the weeks singles and the
best one this week by a mile is the DEERHOOF 7" picture disc on ATP/Tomlab.
The Perfect Me is the first fruit from their forthcoming album due sometime next
year (the earlier half I'd guess...) and it shows them in their most poppy
coherent form. It's still totally off it's arse mind you yet it's completely
listenable. There's about 100 bits to the song and they all join together in
what seems to be a confused mess but it's actually complete and utter organised
chaos pop. They do that very well..... each song is like an album condensed into
just a few minutes. The sound is ludicrously full and the drum sound is
incredible.... the best drum sound I've heard in a while. Christ I sound
boring..... Comparisons are thin on the ground... at times I hear bits of The
Blues Explosion and the smallest whiffs of Stereolab..... maybe on
crack or something? The B side is a cover of Bungalow Bill which morphs into
The Little Drummer Boy. All very festive I'm sure you'll find and with the
picture disc artwork by David Shrigley it's a rather natty little package.
Hazaar
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What their label says...
Fresh from supporting both Radiohead and The Flaming lips in the UK and Europe, Deerhoof release a very limited (350 for uk) seven inch picture disc with artwork by David Shrigley. *Features the track `The Perfect Me' from the forthcoming album `Friend Opportunity' coming soon on ATP, plus a cover of The Beatles' Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill which continues into The Little Drummer Boy.
