Customer Reviews

The Man, The King, The Girl

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And not a lot else. Like another review says, this is poorly- recorded and punishing noise for a large part. In this early release, it seems like a good portion of the band is not especially proficient on their instruments, as they are now.

This doesn't really mean you shouldn't buy this, at least if you like Deerhoof's more well-conceived recent works like _Apple O'_ and _The Runners Four_. Think of this as research as to how they got so mind-blowingly good. The ingredients are here: the use of noise, of course, but also the cute songs like "Gore in Rut" ("bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny") and "Polly Bee." "Gore in Rut" also comes in a live version entitled "Gore in Crown," which sounds as if Satomi is singing two rooms beneath where the band plays. Again, interesting principally for its disconcerting effect on the listener, not necessarily for its harmonic genius or structured use of noise (both factors you would want to analyze on more recent releases).

I would like to meet the person who listens to this album over and over like I do with _Milk Man_, say. I would like to hear why this is a really good album, as I like to consider myself an open-minded lover of all challenging forms of music. As for now, this is an intriguing curiosity in my Deerhoof collection, one I don't foresee catching the fever for (like I never caught the fever for the earliest Sonic Youth recordings like _Sonic Death_ and _Made in America_ while still not literally disliking them). They bring the noise here, but don't turn the noise into something as transcendent as, say, early Stockhausen or later Deerhoof.

Let me start by saying that I LOVE this band! I first got The runners four and I was blown away, not only for the music but also for the heavyness and the power of the production value. So next was Reverie and it was kinda lo-fi but had great music. then Milk Man which probably is my fave, and Green Cosmos, both great music and production. This disc was almost unlistenable. Muddy 4track noise and peircing treble spikes hurt my ears. The live tracks at the end were the worst. But there was a few redeming qualaties, The song were she sings Bunny Bunny, I saw them on the pancake mountain website playing it live on a kids show! Let me stop complaining and by saying I LOVE THIS BAND!

Deerhoof throw together scratchy, crumbing, random noisescapes that spontaneously coalesce into sweet pop anthems- "Polly Bee" is the best example of this phenomenon, and may be the best song ever written, ever.

when i first heard this album i was like "coooool". its really good. i hope you have a nice time listening to it.