I can't breathe with you looking at me

[unknown + lina scheynius]

Deerhunter - He Would Have Laughed

I honestly can't remember the last time an album immediately affected me like this one did. Basically sometimes things seem to spin off their axis and there are only a few things tying me to the earth at all and when the edges of my vision get blurry and I need something to hold on to, I'm holding tight to this.

[Halcyon Digest]

Brisbane, do not miss Deerhunter along with Beach House, Blonde Redhead, Les Savy Fav, Menomena, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and many more at St. Jerome's Laneway Festival this summer.

"Do you want to come away with me into the pitch black pool?" And i said, "i don't know, i don't know, i don't know..."

Deerhunter - Vox Humana

[Weird Era Cont.]

Black fingernails, double entendres as if you don't know how to be straightforward anymore. I dropped your drink on purpose cause I'd love to see you get angry with me - but you're still fucking ambivalent even in anger. And so I drank twice as much until your charming voice sounded like charms and I was reciting our entire history in my head while our sides were touching and you laughed at my friends, not with them. You think you're pretty clever don't you boy.


And my parents want to know what's wrong. Because my head is so scattered I'm still a wreck even in the shining sun after sleeping for fourteen hours straight. And there's a nice boy who likes me and things could be nice. But I can't look twice at him. Because when I haven't spoken to you in a couple of days I feel like I'm going insane. Because I remember you trying to taste the music off my favourite record and then grinning at me. I remember secret pathways through the neighbours and I remember one pair of stupid jeans. I remember laughing like a lunatic at all the lunatics we see that no one else can. And the single ladies stomp and always dancing and laughing and grinning. And the way you used to shake when you saw me, passing me CDs but not anymore. I think you asked me once. I don't know.

Brisbane! Deerhunter are coming to the Zoo on June 13th, I know right? Best news ever! I'm expecting this to be my favourite night of the year, from one of my favourite bands.

There's no time. We have nothing but time.

[lost the source]

Lotus Plaza - Quicksand


[The Floodlight Collective]


Hopefully there is some awesome Deerhunter-related release every year for the rest of my life, for the start of 2009 we have the first non-Bradford Cox centric release I've heard: the debut album from Cox's best friend, Deerhunter guitarist, song writer and multi instrumentalist Lockett Pundt. It's everything that's awesome about Deerhunter: guitar reverb with distinct pop aesthetics, ambience, warm melodies, compelling percussion and the exploration of alienation and introversion. This is my favourite type of music: slow revealing, warm, confessional and intensely personal.

[The Floodlight Collective is set for release on Kranky March 23]

We were captured by Victorian vampires

[source: Deerhunter myspace]

Deerhunter - Saved By Old Times (Platts Eyott Session)

This session was recorded by Bradford Cox [Deerhunter/Atlas Sound] in September of this year on Platts Eyott, an island reserve in the middle of the Thames river, London. It's a continuous stream on consciousness containing songs from this year's Microcastle and 'Spring Hall Convert' from Cryptograms and is supposed to be listened to all at once - a tribute to John Peel. It's fantastically melancholy and confessional, a great headphone listen that somehow feels heavy on your ears. This song in particular, from Microcastle, makes any room you listen in seem a dimly lit, smoke-filled haven.

Listen to the entirety of the session here, and my favourite song from Microcastle here.

***


Also:

Along with every other teenage girl in Australia, I will be going to see this today:



I'm more than a little excited.

Recover me

[photosource: can't remember]

Deerhunter - Agoraphobia

Song I'm enjoying very much while being held inside by the weather and study. 

[from forthcoming Microcastles, available currently on iTunes]

***

Also:

Everyone should see Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, it's definitely one of the best movies I've seen this year. The imagery and montages accompanied by a fantastic score were literally jawdropping. The movie was tense, tense, tense and in the end really quite moving. It was about a sixteen year old boy who is involved in an accident at a local skate park and the story is basically about how he deals with his guilt and also try not to get caught. The film was infamously cast over myspace and I think it was a great idea, everyone is just so normal looking and it's superbly well acted. It just looks so good, cinematography was amazing. Here's the opening ten minutes for you to get the idea and Paranoid Park is available to rent at your local Video Ezy :):