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Deerhunter
Released 2004

Adorno
04:36
661 plays

N. Animals
02:34
657 plays

Tech School
02:29
526 plays

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- 1
- N. Animals
- 02:34
- 657 plays

- 2
- Adorno
- 04:36
- 661 plays

- 3
- Tech School
- 02:29
- 526 plays

- 4
- Ponds
- 02:50
- 385 plays

- 5
- Language/Violence
- 02:36
- 473 plays

- 6
- Oceans
- 03:47
- 354 plays

- 7
- Basement
- 02:59
- 515 plays

- 8
- Young Layer
- 02:19
- 277 plays

- 9
- Death Drag
- 08:48
- 316 plays

album review

The debut album by Atlanta new wave revivalists Deerhunter (officially untitled, but listed in the Stickfigure Records catalog under the name "Turn It Up Faggot," a taunt the band claims was often directed at them during their early gigs) is a pleasant change from all the B-52's and Joy Division worship that goes on under that banner. In its place comes an aggressive blend of guitar skronk and rhythmic pummeling that's a direct descendent of fellow Georgians like the Method Actors and the early, aggressive side of Pylon. The five-piece band favors a squalling, echo-heavy sound that makes individual instruments and vocals nearly impossible to make out: the loudest sound to pierce through the murk is as likely to be a simple one-note piano part or thwacking hi-hat cymbal as anything else. The resulting mess of a sound is a take-it-or-leave-it affair that some listeners will find an impenetrable wash of noise. The intrepid listener who sticks with it will find a compelling mix of dance-rock throb and noisy drones that sound like a happy-feet cross between early Sonic Youth feedback squalls and the most Krautrock-influenced and dance-oriented aspects of the Fall. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide