Deerhoof
Deerhoof is one of those special, ever-evolving bands that still sound fresh, exciting, and surprising after nearly three decades in the indie-rock scene. Like a controlled demolition, the band is all at once rough, angry, joyful, janky, teetering on a wire for show and never falling. I particularly like the sweet, melancholic title track, with its whining slide guitar and telephone-toned keyboards. Deerhoof is currently touring its 19th album Miracle-Level—which came out at the end of March—which is the band's first record sung entirely in singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki’s native Japanese language. If you don’t speak Japanese, you won’t understand what she’s singing about, but you can sure feel it.
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