Sorry, I’m a little late with this one but I just got to it. I feel like I have to post it cause you know how much we’re in love with music that transcends conventional borders. This remix is sick. Ok, Deerhunter can be insane musically at some moments and I’m loving the neurotic psychedelia that dominates their sound. Of course, sometimes they are just these cute weirdo indie guys who’s been listening to too much Spiritualized and Velvet Underground. Certainly, their influences are awesome. On their 2008 album, Microcastle, which is my favourite so far, they pull everything off: lsd-d noise, haunting vocals, indie rock, sad singer-songwriter stuff, ghostly keyboards and gazing shoes. Even the folk hiding on the album sounds authentic. The record is great, and no, I’m not under the effect of Pitchfork. Bradford Cox, the vocalist and songwriter has an experimental post-rock + electro-ish project: Atlas Sound. And he’s a blogger, yay!! Still, it comes as a surprise that Simian Mobile Disco remixed a song from a previous album Cryptograms. Octet, as reworked by SMD, is very disturbing. Like a demon of mental illness in your head or dreaming that you are a schizophrenic serial killer. SMD managed to transfer some noise right into the listener’s brain. Dissonance is attractive here, on every level where SMD managed to spread it.

Deerhunter - Octet (Simian Mobile Disco rework) [zshare] // [ysi]

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 30th, 2008 at 11:15 am and is filed under smd, deerhunter, experimental, electro, indie.