Deerhunter: Fluorescent - Not Grey

Deerhunters recent album on Kranky, Cryptograms, floated around on le blogosphere quite conspicuously for a while, and now seems to have vanished into relative obscurity. The vinyl version of the album I waited a good few months for comes packaged in flourescent pink hypnotic sleeve, along with the EP, Fluorescent Grey (not so exciting artwork above). Boy, were those few months worth it for the trippy artwork in 12". This should not have been overlooked...

Flourescent Grey is much more off the radar than the full-length Cryptograms, but both stand up to as much scrutiny as you can muster. Cryptograms is part intense slurred post-rock, part raw guitar songs, due to the two-part recording time: the first attempt was abandoned because of frustration over the way the mikes were capturing the sound. The second bout - taken up months later - is more controlled, less agitated withedges more defined; sharper. Fluorescent Grey swings somewhere in the middle of these two, four tracks of scuffed lines carrying a decided structure.

This is the title track from said EP. It spirals around a cyclic sagging melody, guitars that fall a little behind the pack, giving a wonderful drawl to the whole track. Layers build and levels rise; lucid - patiently, patiently...

Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey

Check out the artwork and the pitchfork review here and their blog here, which has mp3s of other people and stuff, including a Psychic TV cover of a Neil Young track, something that only induces confusion in me.