It wasn't until Halcyon Digest came, though, that the group finally reached a highly expected level of balance between form and content. Image: Gary Wolstenholme / Redferns

The third album by Atlanta's kings of "ambient punk" is a beautiful bummer. A majority of the songs are wonderful. and the girl group gauze of "Basement Scene," but that's balanced with more concise, full band selections that sound like half-remembered 1960s pop songs. After turning it over in your mind for a few listens, you’ll likely find levels of intricacy unimagined on the first spin. We catch snatches of lyrics as they drift off into the wind, conversations half recalled. So this time, I will not say "Best of the year". A blur is forming too much between Deerhunter and Atlas Sound. To enter to win a copy of Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest on 120 gram white vinyl, rate that album above, leave a comment with your thoughts on the album/review and hit the ReTweet or FB Share buttons below. It's not as immediate as previous Deerhunter albums, but Halcyon Digest has an appeal all its own: It's as difficult to grasp - and as hard to shake - as a memory lingering at the back of your brain. Definitely the most beautiful of the year, You know, I've listened to the bulk of Deerhunter and Atlas Sound's collective output, and I've realized a couple things...first, as much as. It's kinda like with After Laughter/Paramore in general for anyone who knows me. The tribute to Jay Reatard and the song with the saxophone (!) PMA was once called “the true keepers of serendipity” in The New Yorker. A blur is forming too much between Deerhunter and Atlas Sound.

You have to force yourself through the first couple songs, which I suppose was intentional--Deerhunter panders to an elitist indie clientele, right? It's a fascinating document to study, but I'm not sure that makes it all great music. Halcyon Digest brilliantly mixes immediate pop familiarity with world-weary malaise. this may not be a perfect album but emotions take control with albums like this. Deerhunter mash together garage fuzz, folky quietude, power-pop melody and electronic clatter — art… Halcyon Digest shines when Deerhunter (finally) gets excited and churns out rock songs, and as a whole it is fascinating to study. I see the flaws but the attachment I have to the music lets me completely overlook them. Cherish it like you would a phantom limb. If you skip out on a track, you'll be missing something. Bradford Cox's jagged, swirling atmospherics reach an apotheosis on this hazy but blissful offering. Most of the album could pass as solo recordings, like the slow-motion slumber of "Earthquake!" As Cox explains on “He Would Have Laughed,” “in sweetness comes suffering.”. Halcyon Digest is not necessary the most impressive album in terms of technical ability but it provides a strong cohevise and emotional journey from start to finish with seemingly with no effort provide a more mellow and soothing sound which makes the bittersweet lyrics even more grounded and fleshed out Track Review Earthquake 8.5/10. Brief moments of transcendence break through the album's cracked, depressed facade, though even those are fleeting. Deerhunter has graduated, by degrees, from conjuring moods to writing proper songs, and fourth album Halcyon Digest finds Bradford Cox and company strip-mining new aural territory and toeing the line between structure and abstraction. Halcyon Digest is a record about the joy of music discovery, the thrill of listening for the first time to a potential future favorite, and that sense of boundless possibility when you're still innocent of indie-mainstream politics and your personal canon is far from set. Upon repeat listens, there's not one point of Halcyon Digest that feels like it was overly thought out. Dedicated to the late Jay Reatard, “He Would Have Laughed” builds slowly, diagramming the ambition and regret of a life remembered in collage. Back in 2014 I've listen on the radio a guy compare Animal Collective with Deerhunter so I decided listen this album... More psychedelic music for sad young adults. creo q Halcyon Digest tiene el poder d conectarse con los sentimientos del momentoooooo, por lo menos eso m pasó a mi. These albums can be enjoyed. The opener "Earthquake" is so atmospheric and gentle, like a mystical glowing spirit dancing near a pond, and one of my favorite openings to an album ever. [Oct. 2010, p. 90]. Deerhunter have long proved themselves to be one of the most inventive bands around and the most deserving of the boatloads of hype and bandwidth that has been devoted to their work. Halcyon Digest solidifies that notion even as they sound like they are evaporating into the ether. Many artists have tried their hand at inter-genre instrumental experimentation within an album. This is more of a chamber pop record, thanks in part to the Ben Allen production. CAD 3X38CD; CD). Halcyon Digest might be an easy listen, but it takes effort to digest. Genres: Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Rock. It took me a while to realise just how perfect this album is, truly the greatest Indie Rock release of the 2010's. Halcyon Digest is a notably unforeboding title for a Deerhunter album, a dollar-word way of saying what we non-artistes might refer to as “looking back on the god old days.” And as a matter of fact, that’s exactly what Deerhunter’s latest sounds like: blissful reminiscence, rendered strangely. But more importantly, Halcyon Digest deserves time to ruminate; your brain needs to roll it over a few times and check it out from all angles and in good light. MTV considered PMA one of the “best independent music blogs,” and “a blog you should know.” The Toronto Star very kindly described PMA as “indispensable,” and the New York Post said Pretty Much Amazing was “one of those little website crumbs of deliciousness [we] visit every morning.”. Well, for one, I’ve been busy. based on You know, I've listened to the bulk of Deerhunter and Atlas Sound's collective output, and I've realized a couple things...first, as much as everyone claims that this album is unique and a step ahead, it's stylistically no different from their previous album, Microcastle--same heavily treated guitars droning on for way too long, same vocals wailing with forced emotion in the distance, same clunky percussion. Bradford Cox of Deerhunter. Halcyon Digest is, to my mind, the best we've seen from Deerhunter, and a hint that their best is still to come.



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