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Rizzo:
Ok so, because Tommydsky tells me that I have no soul because I don't like Deerhoof, I have downloaded 4 tracks and I shall now review them.

Sealed With A Kiss:
A series of what seem to be samples of a childrens orchestra arrange in bizzare patterns to give the semblance of order. The vocals are some hideously high pitched girl/woman thing singing nonsense. This is less melodic than Converge and a good ten times more painful.
Even at 256 kbps the quality of most of the instruments is hideous.

Gore In Rut:
Very very lofi instruments wailing with feedback and the singer chanting bunny bunny bunny and something about monster rabbits over this noise. This is like an indie band heard Blood Brothers and tryed to immitate them on a tenth the budget and a quarter of the musical ability.

Giga Dance:
I really like where the beginning of this song seems to be heading. It sounds like it may break into a really weird circus meets rock and roll vibe. Instead it hits slow recorders and organs with their creepy girlthing singer over the top again.
I like the chorus, I really do, it has a creepy 'murder at the circus' vibe.

Red Dragon:
Someone please murder the singer. I really like the actual music of this. It's simple, it's dream like. Her goddamn heroin fulled croaking over the top is just killing this for me. It makes me hate the band.

I really cannot see why people go in for this. I mean, there's obviously some redeeming features; at times the music is actually nice to listen to and the arrangements are interesting if a lot more dischordant than I'd like but good god is that singer awful.

Deerhoof, love or hate? Discuss now.

I got the tracks from this site. Can someone confirm this is infact deerhoof?

Jenno:
It is indeed Deerhoof.

You would probably gain a better impression by downloading a entire album (perhaps The Runners Four or Apple O') and listening to the entirety in order.

Rizzo:
I never said blood brothers were good. They were just the first band to spring to mind. And herion vocals because they remind me of Orchid and Circle Takes The Square, bands with their roots firmly in heroin.

Rizzo:
No I mean the drug heroin.

Sex? I'm a n00b but I'm getting slowly better I think.

Hat:
Man, if its ok with you Rizzo, I'm going to do a review here as well. If its not, well I kind of just did it.

Sorry.

I've only heard the Green Cosmos EP. It kind of gave me a headache, but I think this is mostly because "Come See The Duck" is pretty much the worst opening track for any CD I have ever heard. *

Almost every song except the opener has some kind of redeeming feature about it, but it wasn't that great.

Is this just a bad CD to base a sole review on? Should I listen to half their discography before I judge them?

I didn't actually mean to make a point there, but I kind of did anyway, so yay me. There are some bands that I had to listen to half their discography to get a feel for, before I go back over the stuff I didn't like intially, so I'm not trying to be snide or anything, but it is seriously hard to motivate yourself to do that unless you know people that own all their albums, and aren't just yelling at you to listen to them all the time

*Only a slight exagerration

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