Deerhunter Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. (Vinyl)

Fresh on the heels of his deliciously spooky Atlas Sound solo album, the bizarre and beguiling Bradford Cox outdid himself again on his Brooklyn-based band’s third record, Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.

Like many of their peers, Deerhunter are enamoured of shoegazing. Unlike most, they swim with the genre’s morbid undertow, pitching their seductive noisescapes not as a means of transcendence but as an asphyxiating yet beautiful cocoon. “I want only to see four walls made of concrete,” sighs guitarist Lockett Pundt on Agoraphobia.

Microcastle’s counterintuitive sequencing turns out to be a coup as the band pass through Sonic Youth/Galaxie 500 noise-pop, lose themselves in a wintry ambient blur, and emerge, emboldened, with Nothing Ever Happened’s astonishing motorik wig-out, one of the finest songs of the year.

The more experimental bonus disc,Weird Era Cont., offers yet more evidence that this remarkable band are pushing boundaries in all directions. (Guardian)

White Vinyl + CD

Tracklist:
Microcastle
A1 Cover Me Slowly 1:22
A2 Agoraphobia 3:23
A3 Never Stops 3:05
A4 Little Kids 4:23
A5 Microcastle 3:40
A6 Calvary Scars 1:37
A7 Green Jacket 2:09
A8 Activa 1:49
B1 Nothing Ever Happened 5:51
B2 Saved By Old Times 3:50
B3 Neither Of Us, Uncertainly 5:25
B4 Twilight At Carbon Lake 4:24
Weird Era Cont.
CD-1 Backspace Century 2:19
CD-2 Operation 4:04
CD-3 Ghost Outfit 0:33
CD-4 Dot Gain 3:19
CD-5 Vox Celeste 3:34
CD-6 Cicadas 2:27
CD-7 Vox Humana 2:32
CD-8 VHS Dream 2:33
CD-9 Focus Group 2:48
CD-10 Slow Swords 3:25
CD-11 Weird Era 2:40
CD-12 Moon Witch Cartridge 1:31
CD-13 Calvary Scars II / Aux. Out 10:12