Blog: the bathysphere

Deerhunter Microcastle (Kranky, 2008) N o, it's not totally fair to judge an album against those that preceded it, but when that previous material is the completely brilliant and satisfying Cryptograms , there exists a certain inescapable standard by which any following material will inevitably be compared. So let's assess the damage. Microcastle finds the band with a markedly wider palate of styles, a tremolo pedal in place of the small army of delay pedals that sent Cryptograms swirling into the history books, [...]