Monomania

Pitchfork 8.3/10 On Deerhunter’s swaggering fifth album, Monomania, they almost completely jettison the dreamy ambience that usually characterizes their work in favor of straight-up raw, bleeding garage rock, populating the songs with junkyards, leather jackets, and motorcycles.

A.V. Club B Monomania, the fifth studio full-length album from Atlanta art-punk band Deerhunter begins not with bang, but a croak. Following a few seconds of guitar interplay, frontman Bradford Cox howls a little before “Neon Junkyard” kicks into proper gear, then sings, “Finding the fluorescence in the junk / By night…

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 Deerhunter set up uncharacteristically straightforward confines only to mock their self-set boundaries from within.

Rolling Stone 3.5/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Monomania on Rolling Stone.com.

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The Skinny 3/5 Having operated amongst a mire of genres within their self-proclaimed ‘ambient punk’ label, fans of Atlanta quintet Deerhunter should hold no truck with the direction sixth album Monomania takes. After the soporific and nostalgic tone of 2010’s Halcyon Digest, it stands as something of a wake-up call, full of scuzzy garage riffs and heavily treated, lo-fi vocals

Under The Radar 8.5/10 Bradford Cox has long maintained that music is for all intents and purposes his boyfriend. Often classifying himself as asexual, he's asserted that a relationship would convolute his single-minded pursuit of music.

Clash 6/10 Clash reviews 'Monomania' by Deerhunter

The Observer 5/5 Deerhunter's sixth album is a whistlestop tour of rock'n'roll styles, writes <strong>Killian Fox</strong>

Slant 2.5/5 Monomania is frustratingly disheveled, its numerous coarse spots in need of some serious polishing.

The Guardian 3/5 Now his band is on its sixth album, Bradford Cox gets to do what Bradford Cox wants – and we all have to get used to it, says <strong>Michael Hann</strong>