Deerhoof, finally
November 29th, 2005
Last Wednesday I saw Deerhoof at the Echo in an early all ages show. Seeing the youth of today made me feel old and decrepit. I took pictures, they were blurry and sort of a waste, but they still remind me of the show.
Their new album is at a higher level than their prior work (which is pretty copious), I think they sort of curved the corners and punched up (compressed?) the sound. But, they didn’t compress at the cost of dynamics, there is some crazy quiet stuff. Did I mention that I have 2 basic sound systems in my possession these days? One, the Camry (thanks E and Raf), which is boomin’ (above the noise of the car itself), and the Laptop… Laptop speakers. Not really ‘musical’ even if you disdain audiophile snobbery jargon.
I have to get to putting my component system together from scratch… Question is should a soldering iron be involved? Uh… Right, so Deerhoof. New album, ‘The Runners Four’ really flows. I should be listening to it right now on giant speakers. But, alas, it’s out in the camry. Deerhoof live on WFMU provide a good look at what came into play at the live shows.
Shout out to J who saw them at the Smell back in the day, that must’ve been a good show.