DEERHOOF – San Francisco Veterans Released Their Enigmatic Dance Album ‘NOBLE AND GODLIKE IN RUIN’
New longplayers
26 April 2025
Photo by Satoru Eguch
Band: DEERHOOF
Who: Hard-working indie punk-rockers from
San Francsico who “keep it boxy and harsh since
1994”.
New Album: NOBLE AND GODLIKE IN RUIN
Their 19th one.
Press info: “For a band that seems to thrive on collapse, it’s simply amazing that
this US/Japanese quartet is now celebrating their 31st year. The inventive quartet
release new albums on the schedule of a young band still hungry for its first break.
As ‘Noble and Godlike in Ruin‘ reaffirms, each one discovers some previously unknown combination of candy-coated hard-rock riffs and free-jazz percussive freakouts, sideways
J-pop hooks and fearsome dissonance, trenchant social commentary and surrealist humor.
This music is joyful and foreboding, cybernetic and deeply human, carrying an implicit
note of defiant optimism in their refusal to bow to convention or received wisdom. Fronting it all is Satomi Matsuzaki’s inimitable alto, whose plainspoken calm can seem strangely outside of the band’s maelstrom. Deerhoof is defined by such paradoxes.”
New album artwork – That guy looks like Thom Yorke?
Pitchfork: “Noble and Godlike in Ruin is cluttered and dense, sometimes overwhelmingly so. Everything feels stitched together, almost surgical—like, well, a Frankenstein monster. When
the approach works, it’s exciting.”
TUTV: Sounds like some sort of prog-dance pop-rock party for mainstream disco and
R&B haters. Enigmatic tunes, jumping from left to right, forth and back. Sometimes trippy, sometimes ambient, but melodically, upside down most of the time. Satomi Matsuzaki‘s peculiar voice draws a lot of attention, as usual. You need a couple of spins to get into their puzzling bleep bleep bleep universe, well I did, and I’m still puzzled.
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