
I’ve always remain a skeptic towards their music, but among the throngs of bands that’s been shoved into the battledom of congested hype I’ve always been more than prepared to soak in their brand of noise-rock/shoegaze/experimental/psychedelic artifacts that everyone’s been absolute bonkers about. Also because I’m a complete fool for all things noise-rock/shoegaze, so Deerhunter dudes, you had me at ‘noise’. But for a band that draws regular comparisons to My Bloody Valentine, their latest release Microcastle certainly sounds cleaner amid distortions that feels planned and calculated, thus revealing a compilation that’s somewhat absent from all the “charm in the intimacy of an unpolished production”. That said, Microcastle is a definite grower and serves as a unique, utterly enthralling listening-- I’d be an idiot to deny that.

|mp3| Deerhunter - Never Stop