Okay, I'll be honest: I'm all for a band exploring new sounds, but frankly I was hoping that Microcastle would contain more of the blissful shoegaze-ish heights of earlier Deerhunter tracks like 'Spring Hall Convert' and 'Fluorescent Grey.' But Bradford Cox has confounded me (in a good way!), and created an album as different from 'Cryptograms' as that album was from their initial full-length effort. There's nary an effects pedal to be found, and Cox's songwriting genius is now put in the service of impossibly straightforward and clean-sounding mid-tempo early-60s pop songs, with occasional forays into a harder/complicated sound, or into elegiac piano, sound collage, etc. ('Weird Era Cont.,' the second 'companion' album --- not a double album! --- contains tracks which are quite short and vaguely Cryptograms-ish, though of B-side quality.) Overall, an entirely worthwhile purchase from one of the most impressive bands of the '00s.

Style: Indie Rock

RIYL: Pavement, The Shins

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2008  Deerhunter  Indie Rock  Kranky  Microcastle  Pavement  The Shins  Weird Era Cont.  playbynumbers 

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