What are Deerhoof? Well, Deerhoof are Deerhoof. Nobody sounds like they do. If you for even a second thought that the traditional rock lineup of drums - bass - guitar - keyboards - vocals was in danger of running out of new sounds, these guys will quickly disabuse you of that notion. It's hard to describe what Deerhoof sound like; the combination of squiggly keyboard lines, "angular" (sorry) guitars, pounding drums and highpitched Shonen Knife-y vocals adds up to something totally original. I thought Pitchfork, if they were going to put a Deerhoof album on this list (and I suppose you'd have to) would pick
The Runners Four; it's the longest, the most "epic" and the most indebted to traditional song structures. But I'm glad they picked this one. It's pretty much the quintessential Deerhoof record, containing both their herky-jerky avantgarde side and their poppier side (which really isn't "pop" in any traditional sense of the term: it sounds like punk music from Mars). So, is it good? Well, it's Deerhoof. And in the words of Roger Ebert (and I think he stole them from somebody else): if you like this sort of thing, this will be the sort of thing you like.
MY RATING:
7.9
Deerhoof - "Apple Bomb"
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