Deerhoof Album: “Reveille [Bonus Tracks]”

After two albums of clever noise, Deerhoof has the audacity to drop one of the catchiest albums of the last 5 years. Take formidable blasts of raw but soaring, often dissonant guitar, plenty of wild studio trickery, some seriously sugary melodies, and an incessantly cute Japanese chick on vocals, and you only have the ingredients, because the warped noise-pop coming out of your speakers will stick in your head for WEEKS. Very few of the songs sound anything like each other, and they're played so earnestly and unbelaboredly that it sounds as if the band could churn them out at this quality for eternity (and, well, the similar-but-even-more-accessible follow-up Apple O proves that they're far from done). Almost nobody sounds like Deerhoof, and if you like noise- or avant-pop, the music that makes you go giddy with simple enjoyment before you realize just how _interesting_ it is, click the buy button before you have the chance to change your mind. Trust me: this is a tremendous album that never feels like one. It's so simply _GOOD_ you'll forget it's also Great.

Deerhoof. They're so novel and gleeful that their album "Reveille" will be the most refreshing and exciting half hour of your life.

The album perfectly treads the line between the experimental and the conventional. Wildly innovative, it remains highly riff-driven and catchy, with gritty rock 'n' roll guitar licks and organ solos among ever-changing time signatures, casio effects and noise. The mood is so dynamic that you'll feel every emotion through the course of it. The female vocalist is inarticulate and soprano, playing the role of an angelic instrument. But it's not nonsensically experimental; upon close listen it proves to be meticulously structured, but *smarter than us*. It's like listening to music for the first time. You will laugh out loud.

If you like Beck, King Crimson, Radiohead, Ween, the Velvet Underground, Stereolab, and the white Stripes, simultaneously, you will love "Reveille."

This is really quite an album, I think after seeing them live I would like them no matter what. But I love the carefree romp through a cropdusting glance away and then back, the whole time wondering about getting to the good moments.

I always wanted to see what would happen if a band just inhibited and sporatic frolick through their brainstorming process with elegance and then mess it up a little, pushing bounderies and all the while holding steady a progression of song coloring the whole process with a burst of void filled oblivious chaos.

I felt this album captured a good portion of how they sound live

This is pretty accessible ear-candy -- for a noisy, jumpy freak-fest. The dynamics swing in a wild, unpredictable arc, but ultimately there are pop songs (or fragments thereof) sliced, diced and scattered across this canvas among the pretty shards of glass and peels of decaying fruit.

This might be a good way to slip some avant-garde rock into the ears of folks who think that the only "good" music has 1-5-4 chord patterns and a verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus-chorus structure.

Best American rock band since Captain Beefheart's Magic Band.... deerhoofmaskreplica baby....