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artist · deerhoof
release · holdypaws
year · 1999
genre · avantgarde
label · kill rock stars
catalogue · krs343
website · www.killrockstars.com
date · 22-dec-2004
quality · 141kbps/44,1khz
source · compact disc
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01 magic star 2:55
02 queen of the lake 4:59
03 the moose's daughter 3:32
04 data 3:01
05 dead beat queen 3:04
06 crow 2:56
07 satan 2:17
08 flower 4:21
playtime · 00h 27m 05s
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are we supposed to give points for trying? because these people
seem to be doing their best. they take a basic late '70s new age
instrumental line-up of bass, guitar, drums, and keyboards and
then make a lot of noise with it. it's almost as if they are
accidentally achieving the gloriously awful amateurishness of
garage bands everywhere, but they keep repeating the same
cacaphonous strategies over and over, so you know that it's no
accident. then the vocals, which are often mixed too low, go
wandering into a weird, warbly, keening register that kind of
sounds offkey to you unless you know how much you have to practice
to sound this unpracticed and you start wondering if you might not
be listening to music majors putting some sort of theory to work.
it's very dissonant, but in a professional entertainer of the
nineties way, so you know they exerted a great deal of effort to
sound this cruddy.
kill rock stars puts out some swell stuff like bikini kill and
sleater-kinney, true alternatives to alternative now that
alternative is mainstream. but deerhoof doesn't sound like a band
that you would drive 40 miles on country roads to hear. they sound
more like a group of local favorites who take the stage at around
4:00 a.m. when the only people left in the audience are college
kids and other bourgeois who don't have to get up in the morning
and work. which is great in a way-deerhoof, and any other minor
band may luck into being the greatest rock & roll band in the
world on any given night-but then again, you know, maybe, maybe
not, whatever.
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