La Isla Bonita
The weird pop veterans return with their 13th album. It's among their most accessible records, reaching for moments of escapism that never entered the frame on 2012's Breakup Songs.
Deerhoof’s La Isla Bonita is all about repetition, mantras, lacerating chords, and joyful, cacophonous catharsis. Singer-bassist Satomi Matsuzaki spits out her lyrics as if they’re divine mantras, finding profundity in the mundane, while guitarists John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez strike an uncanny balance between…
The bordering on legendary San Francisco quartet prove their longevity with their 13th album.
You walk into the Deerhoof juicebar and you’re perturbed by the ingredients of each concoction. How could that work? I’m…
Deerhoof celebrated their 20th anniversary with the release of La Isla Bonita, another fine example of how the band changes course on almost every album.
Fifteen seconds into the scuffed RnB of Paradise Girls, you might be forgiven for assuming you’ve got the gist of Deerhoof’s thirteenth album. After all, this sort of lunatic glitch-pop formed the backbone of previous effort Breakup Song, and the funk underpinning Satomi Matsuzaki’s ever-delirious vocals seems to suggest more of the same.
There is no other band that sounds like Deerhoof, and the San Francisco-based quartet has capitalized on that fact by maintaining a laser focus on their playful yet prodigious songcraft.
The world doesn't realize how much it needs Deerhoof until a new Deerhoof album appears.
'La Isla Bonita' the new album from Deerhoof, reviewed by Evan McDowell for Northern Transmissions, The album comes out November 4th on Polyvinyl Records