★★★★★
In an interview with Rolling Stone, after the release of Atlas Sound's fantastically brilliant Parallax, Bradford Cox explained his monomania and how he's consistently fixated with one thing. And while monomania is the strict definition of a partial insanity where a sole aspect consumes one's mind, Cox goes on to explain his ensuing nervous breakdown in a London hotel. "I'm obsessive about one thing, that there's one thing that's going to make me happy and it's making music," Cox explained...
- www.adequacy.net
2013-07-08
★★★★★
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox has claimed that the state of "monomania", after which his band have named their sixth album, relates to him having never "moved on" like his bandmates, instead remaining single-minded and, for better or worse, constantly focused on nothing but his music. Bearing this in mind, these new tracks feel, more than ever, like very personal work...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-05-24
★★★★★
"Nothing ever ends up quite like what you planned," rasps firebrand frontman Bradford Cox in the closing verse of "Pensacola." This lyric could serve as an apt credo for Deerhunter's modus operandi: a gradual process of distorting and mounting upon tightly coiled grooves until the listener's endgame, by track's conclusion, has been met with a seamless sort of subversion...
- filtermagazine.com
2013-05-22
★★★★★
It's important to attend to beginnings. Most people met Deerhunter around the time of Cryptograms (2007) or the beloved Microcastle (2008), but their first static-wreathed transmission to the world was an aggressively amelodic cacophony affectionately known as Turn It Up Faggot (2005). If you haven't heard it, you're not alone. Spotify's otherwise exhaustive Deerhunter inventory excludes it, and the band themselves rarely draw from it for concerts...
- cokemachineglow.com
2013-05-22
★★★★★
"Punk. It manifests itself in many ways, and for him it was just there like a neon strobe light. And now it's not there anymore. I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening." - Bradford Cox in an interview with Larry Fitzmaurice for Pitchfork, published November 10, 2011"I don't care if it was great. Was it punk...
- www.musicvice.com
2013-05-18
★★★★★
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. He classified his pathology as "monomania" in a Rolling Stone interview a few years back, essentially an obsession with one idea or subject...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-05-11
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3DeerhunterMonomania4ad2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album At this point, complaining about any of Bradford Cox's musical...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-05-10
★★★★★
Release Date: May 7, 2013 Deerhunter sure as hell seemed like a band on a very clear trajectory. Their ascendance to post-millenial indie rock titans appeared to be complete with 2010's Halcyon Digest, a nearly universally adored record that perfectly blended the band's shoegaze-inspired ambient guitar swirl with frontman Bradford Cox's knack for pop melody...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-05-09
★★★★★
"Finding the fluorescence in the junk" is the first line sneered by Bradford Cox on the new Deerhunter album and it sums up the qualities of this body of work well. Monomania is a well-timed change of tack for Deerhunter, sitting somewhere between the raw intensity of their near-forgotten debut Turn It Up Faggot and the lo-fi solo melodies of Cox's Atlas Sound recordings...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-05-07
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