Microcastle

Deerhunter - Microcastle

Microcastle
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Artist: Deerhunter
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Music Label: Kranky
Product features:
  • Electronic/Experimental, Space Rock/Drone
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Cover Me
  2. Agoraphobia
  3. Never Stops
  4. Little Kids
  5. Microcastle
  6. Calvary Scars
  7. Green Jacket
  8. Activa
  9. Nothing Ever Happened
  10. Saved by Old Times
  11. Neither of Us, Uncertainly
  12. Twilight at Carbon Lake
Music CD 2
  1. Backspace Century [*]
  2. Operation [*]
  3. Ghost Outfit [*]
  4. Dot Gain [*]
  5. Vox Celeste [*]
  6. Cicadas [*]
  7. Vox Humana [*]
  8. VHS Dream [*]
  9. Focus Group [*]
  10. Slow Swords [*]
  11. Weird Era [*]
  12. Moon Witch Cartridge [*]
  13. Calvary Scars II/Aux. Out [*]

Music reviews of Microcastle

Music Review: GREAT ALBUM!!! BEST RELEASE OF THE YEAR!!!
Rating: 5 Stars

Since 2001, Deerhunter - co-founded by Bradford Cox and Moses Archuleta - have produced three LPs and four EPs worth of astonishing "ambient punk" (their own description), picking up devotees and different musicians along the way. Their mantra - "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance" (Jean Genet) (Fronted by openly gay and occasionally cross-dressing singer Bradford Cox, Deerhunter have earned themselves a formidable reputation for intense live performances in their native Atlanta).
4AD's first involvement with the band was to release Microcastle, their excellent third album. The follow-up to 2006's acclaimed Cryptograms, it was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes and was created as a four-piece, consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver and Moses Archuleta. Most tracks feature Cox on lead vocals except "Agoraphobia" and "Neither of Us, Uncertainly" where guitarist Pundt is the main provider and "Saved by Old Times", which includes a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of "The Black Lips".
The sounds on Microcastle form a lush landscape. Ethereal voices blend into battered guitars and a determined rhythm section.
Microcastle has more fully formed songs and vocals, although Cox's narcotic mumble is generally half buried under layers of reverb, feedback and other guitar noise as well as tape loops and electronica. Just don't look for information about who's doing what in the minimal sleeve notes, and forget about analyzing the lyrics, since Cox seems firmly of the words-as-musical-tools school of song writing. Praise Be!
The relatively gentle Agoraphobia (one of two tracks featuring guitarist Lockett Pundt on vocals) could almost be an early Meat Puppets out-take, while "Never Stops" makes scarifying feedback a thing of beauty like "The Jesus And Mary Chain", with the first of several prettily melodic 'ahhhhh' choruses. The title track goes through a long, languid intro before morphing into a pounding rocker, and there are several spacey, reflective interludes before the metronomic "Stereolab-ish" groove of "Nothing Ever Happened". "Twighlight at Carbon Lake" is a twisted, atmospheric closer.
As the title suggests, things get stranger on Weird Era Continued. Highlights include Operation, with its intriguing tempo changes and cryptically disturbing half-heard lyrics, Vox Celeste, which recalls the muffled lo-fi luminosity of The Clean, and the epic, trancey Calvary Scars 11/Aux.Out. Opening and closing with a kind of mushroom-dazed pastoralism, it's a hypnotically pulsing Krautrock treat dipped in sonic glitter.
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Description of Microcastle

NOW AVAILABLE AS A DOUBLE ALBUM!!! Pitchfork.com's Best New Music 9.2. The highly anticipated follow-up to 2007 s Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Whether or not that was or is deserved is entirely subjective. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of this year. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver, and Moses Archuleta. Saved by Old Times features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist LOCKETT PUNDT, Agoraphobia and Neither of Us, Uncertainly. Includes a bonus LP with an entire second album of material titled Weird Era Cont.

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