The always-brazen Deerhoof challenged their process for their new album, giving themselves tight deadlines, tough decisions, and singing it all in Japanese.
There is a beauty in the inexplicable nature of life. Those strange phenomena that can only be described as miracles. The miracle of life, the miracle of death our entire existence is just as the title suggests, Miracle-Level. Released on March 31, Bay Area-based noise-pop group Deerhoof have returned with their 19th LP titled.
Mics on electric guitars? Running two guitars into one amp? Solos that sound like “malfunctioning fax machines� It can only be the work of indie-rock lifers John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez
Recorded in single takes with minimal overdubs, the San Francisco band’s latest album its first sung entirely in Satomi Matsuzaki’s native Japanese is a confident set of small epiphanies.
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