Blog: Captain Obvious

New Wax Atlanta's Deerhunter crafts beautifully damaged pop songs on their third full-length album Microcastle, which was just made available as a physical release (it's been on iTunes since August). The songs are roughed up with the same garage-rock aesthetic we'd come to expect from the band, but at its core, the album is more direct and contains less experimental art-noise. Cartoonishly tall and sundress-clad lead singer Bradford Cox supplies the eerie vocals on tracks like the mesmerizing piano-laden "Green Jacket," which bleeds seamlessly into "Activa." The [...]

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