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Deerhunter, Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. [Kranky, 2008]

Nov 3, 2008, 9:55pm The Music Lobby
Deerhunter, Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. [Kranky, 2008] Okay, I'll be honest: I'm all for a band exploring new sounds, but frankly I was hoping that Microcastle would contain more of the blissful shoegaze-ish heights of earlier Deerhunter tracks like 'Spring Hall Convert' and 'Fluorescent Grey.' But Bradford Cox has confounded me (in a good way!), and created an album as different from 'Cryptograms' as that album was from their initial full-length effort. There's nary an effects pedal to be found, and Cox's songwriting genius is now put in the service of impossibly straightforward and clean-sounding mid-tempo early-60s pop songs, with occasional forays into a harder/complicated sound, or [...]
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