Offend Maggie

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AlbumMay 01 / 200914 songs, 43m 6s
Indie Rock Experimental Rock Math Pop
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7.6 / 10

After steadily growing more accessible over the past few years, quintessential art-rock band Deerhoof have added a new guitarist and here take the songwriting tricks of their recent albums and apply them to a raw rock aesthetic.

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Deerhoof's songs make plenty of sense in their own fractured way, at least for those willing to follow the band's logic (or take a lucky guess at it). One catchy and mystifying bit crashes into another, and everyone goes home a little crazier and a little happier. Then again, that discounts the purposeful tightness of…

7.7 / 10

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7.0 / 10

There's really only one way to approach a new Deerhoof album: with the expectation that you didn't really see it coming. The band, after roughly 15 years, is still reliably unpredictable.

<p><strong>Garry Mulholland</strong> wonders where the odd yet accessible Americans have been all his life</p>

Aside from an increased guitar presence, Offend Maggie is standard Deerhoof fare.

8 / 10

Only on a Deerhoof album is the juxtaposition of cutesy twee pop with pulverizing noise rock so utterly infectious.

8 / 10