Blog: angels twenty

[review 2008: favourites] Friend Opportunity , Deerhoof's biggest breakthrough to date, was a thoroughly idiosyncratic album whose euphoric highs—the galloping thunderstorm of "The Perfect Me," the adorable chorus of "+813—outweighed but did not entirely eclipse its too-strange missteps, chief among them the frustrating and distractedly dissonant final track "Look Away." But where Friend Opportunity offered occasional moments of pure joy, Offend Maggie offers moments of heartstopping beauty. Where Friend Opportunity felt like a great collection of songs, Offend Maggie sounds like a single cohesive statement. And [...]