Punk_Pink

I don't like to call myself a fan of any band, but there are a few who's
fearless experimentation and flouting of musical conventions do earn a special
affection and respect from me. Deerhoof is one of those bands.
On my initial skim of this album I wasn't too "Jazzed" (pun intended) at the
film score quality and traditional jazz elements. I don't dislike jazz, it's just not
a genre I actively listen at this point of my life.

But at an aquaintence's ... read more

I made it through 8 minutes of the first track. If you are going to open an album with a 12 minute track you better WOW me, because if I ain't feeling it, I'm no giving you a second track at 25 minutes to change my mind. The nearly 4 minutes of utterly unremarkable instrumental leading up to vocal howls and croons and insincere growling of phrases in refrain made the experience feel like a sorry attempt to sound like Jim Morrison and The Doors.
I'd heard a couple people ... read more

It's got it's sticky moments but for the most part, to my ears, an overproduced string of dance songs (if there such a thing as overproduced dance songs) about one girls struggles of finding her identity in a self-obsessed world. Upbeat musically, but dark thematically

Listening to any track off this album is between a 7 and a high 8, but it's hurt by it's unoriginality and lack of diversity. It's a difficult album to listen to in one sitting because by the third track I felt as if I'd been listening to the same song for 15 minutes, by the 7th song it was torture--not because the songs are particularly bad, they were faithful and well executed replications of the 70s romantic soul genre but lacked any deviation or re-interpretation of ... read more