Breakup Song
Deerhoof drummer Greg here to introduce you to our latest record. We've been called a lot of things, as you know. But pop has always marked the spot on the Deerhoof treasure map. Pop = Catchy Pop = New Pop = No rules If you want to come dance or sing karaoke with Deerhoof, you don't have to ask twice. We've just finished a sensational record of Cuban-flavored party-noise-energy music. We called it Breakup Song, but don't expect a bunch of Grammy®-baiting sob stories, OK? In Deerhoof's thesaurus, freedom's just another word for feeling good again and raising hell and getting away with it. Stick with us and the bad guys with guns will never catch up.
Whilst recent Deerhoof albums have occasionally tilted toward sonic exhaustion, Breakup Song is a nice swing in the other direction. It's a quick, pithy album, with 11 songs lasting just 30 minutes.
Now on its 12th album, Deerhoof should have it all figured out. But the group’s new record, Breakup Song, contains more contradictions than ever. A rough band presenting its smoothest listen, a guitar band sacrificing free jam for boxed beats, and a prog band’s attempt to dial down the aural kudzu: The idiosyncratic…
Avant-pop group Deerhoof's twelfth record, Breakup Song, is a case of "it's not me, it's you".
Over the course of their ten previous albums, Deerhoof wrote more songs about milkmen and dogs than falling in, or out, of love, but Breakup Song evens the score a little bit.
Eleven albums in, Deerhoof inhabit something of a paradox: predictable and unpredictable, simultaneously. They remain wildly imaginative, their messy musical palette evidencing a giddy disregard for convention. But at the same time, they’ve executed sharp left turns for so long that swerves have become their hallmark, renderingBreakup Song idiosyncratically familiar, despite its unfamiliar components. Thankfully, it’s not as confusing as it sounds, thanks to the quartet’s evergreen qualities: exuberance, innovation and a keen sense of fun.