please dear god can we get Deerhunter back on the road?
there's nothing so horribly broken about society that a near twenty minute medley of "Halcyon Digest" classics wouldn't heal
May 30, 2025
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By 2010, indie music was looking like it was turning away from a series of regrettable choices; dead bands walking, basically. Then Halcyon Digest came along and reclaimed the joyous nostalgic highlights of the decade that had gone before in a captivating sonic capsule of subdued celebration.
This album still reaches out to me from the slumber of an era in tentative transition - a beacon from a pea soup fog. The youthfulness of old was suddenly paired with the magnetism of experimentation and the result was a scintillating salute that tore the banality surrounding it to shreds. It also contains some of frontman Bradford Cox’s best compositions: the molasses memory stick “Earthquake,” the deceptively jaunty “Revival,” the almost-Vampire Weekend old/timeyness of “Helicopter,” Cox’s tribute to the late Jay Reatard “He Would Have Laughed” and the band’s best song and bid for pop greatness, “Desire Lines.” Cox described the LP’s title as “a reference to a collection of fond memories and even invented ones, like my friendship with Ricky Wilson or the fact that I live in an abandoned victorian autoharp factory. The way that we write and rewrite and edit our memories to be a digest version of what we want to remember, and how that's kind of sad." The past is still with us, just in re-remembered and sometimes wholly invented form. A masterpiece that I wish more people immediately tagged as such. 10/10, no notes.
Dec 11, 2024
so technically it’s a mixtape but the way it’s constructed as a mixtape definitely furthers the image & vision of the whole (& what’s the difference between a mixtape & an album these days anyways 🤷‍♀️) .
a collection of (previously) unreleased songs & snippets & recordings from 2010-2014 , unearthed & reexamined in a period of rest after the band was involved in a pretty serious bus accident .
it was released as a single 43 min track & i love the way it all flows together , with songs & half finished ideas cutting in and out , studio conversations & spoken word segments give it a lived in feel with how they’re processed & edited to fit in the mixtape framework . musically it spans the more dreamy indie pop of his earlier forget work to the early versions of the arena rock grandeur he was striving for on eclipse . highlights for me are the more subdued demo version of the littlest things [(which wouldn’t see a studio release till 2018’s caer) the stripped back arrangement really give his voice centre stage & it’s a beautiful & emotive performance that closes out the project perfectly , crazy [4:58] & the preceding spoken work segment that leads directly into it [4:02] which is a big dramatic hit !, to buffalo [10:31] that features a stunning marriage of acoustic & overdriven electric guitars , & discover me [18:03] a little synthy snippet that’s gone too soon .
it’s as perfect for a night drive as the name suggests , almost giving the impression of flipping through the radio dial as you’re speeding down the highway .
as a final aside the accompanying tour also had great merch featuring this poster & mesh motocross long sleeves
Aug 20, 2024
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May 22, 2025
Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️
Mar 27, 2024
“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024