★★★★★
Defiantly weird noise crew chills out, throws an offbeat party
BY Jon Dolan | December 18, 2014 Deerhoof have been making outrageously inventive ADD noise rock since the Nineties - songs that zip between musical styles, melodic ideas and time signatures while Japanese bassist Satomi Matsuzaki sings in a giddy whirl. Naming their 13th album after a Madonna hit single is pretty funny, since radio pop is about the only thing they've never tried...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-12-19
★★★★★
The world doesn't realize how much it needs Deerhoof until a new Deerhoof album appears. Their thirteenth LP is full of the quirks and original sparks that have helped to define the band and have set apart the rest of their catalog from pretty much anything else released at the time, all of which is easiest to appreciate at the moment it seems obvious that nearly any other music sounds a bit dismal if following a Deerhoof record...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2014-12-03
★★★★★
You walk into the Deerhoof juicebar and you're perturbed by the ingredients of each concoction. How could that work? I'm not sure I want to drink a boysenberry-vanilla and seaweed-shot...No way. But, then you gulp it down and you feel amazing, invigorated, dizzy even. Call it crazy wisdom, but this San Francisco quartet long ago became mystically attuned to the terrific possibilities of combining punk with a groove, garage rock clatter with a pop-inclined danceability, or, essentially,...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2014-11-19
★★★★★
As so-called "indie rock" has moved closer to the mainstream, commercial center of the music business over the past few decades, a stubborn and self-assured cohort of bands has remained stalwart in its commitment to avant-garde sounds that refuse to pander to whatever conventions happen to be in vogue at the moment. Like Xiu Xiu and Blonde Redhead, Deerhoof has managed to enjoy a long career while maintaining the integrity of the boundary-pushing style that has defined its music all along...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-11-13
★★★★★
Over the course of 12 albums and 20 years, Deerhoof have never been a band to stand still or repeat. Constantly pushing at the edges of alt-rock, they're no strangers to clashing genres and ignoring conventions. In fact, wilful juxtaposition of opposing musical forms is quite often where they operate at their best. La Isla Bonita was originally intended to be Deerhoof's take on over-produced pop, with Madonna and Janet Jackson being the primary influences...
- www.musicomh.com
2014-11-11
★★★★★
After two decades of experiments across their expansive art/pop/punk spectrum, it's still impossible to predict what Deerhoof will do next. 'La Isla Bonita' - with the exception of 'Mirror Monster', which glides from eerie and downbeat to emotionally devastating - is all about showcasing their daft array of riffs. There are big, bloated punk ones ('Exit Only'), awkward funky ones ('Paradise Girls'), erratic ones ('Big House Waltz') and nonsensical ones ('Black Pitch')...
- www.nme.com
2014-11-10
★★★★★
Do Deerhoof ever get bored? In a revolving gallery of evaporative avant-pop weirdos, they churn out album after distinctive album without ever breaching self-parody. As an aesthetic conceit, "weird" only works as long as it's novel--if you're going to wallow in it for two decades, you'd better be prepared to regenerate yourself constantly. But Deerhoof make music like a group of friends who never get sick of each other's jokes...
- pitchfork.com
2014-11-07
★★★★★
When Deerhoof make a new album, they're not continuing a sequence; they're having a conversation. Whether coordinating the whole thing over email or swapping band roles as an experiment, the Bay Area band have been going twenty years without a lull in inventiveness. Their twelfth album, 'La Isla Bonita' is no exception, and was made during a week long sleepover in guitarist Ed Rodriguez's basement; during which the host claims they spent most time "arguing over whether to try and sound like...
- diymag.com
2014-11-07
★★★★★
For their 13th album, San Francisco's Deerhoof say they started by trying to record a song like the Ramones' Pinhead. Such ambition paints the colours of the rest of
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-11-06
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