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Oct 21, 2021With Actually, You Can, these four individuals have created a celebration of human possibilities and one of their best records to date.
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Nov 8, 2021Actually, You Can is a testament to the human spirit and the seemingly endless creativity of four people. It’s also a welcome addition to rock’s most diverse catalogue.
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Oct 27, 2021Though comprising only nine songs across just over half an hour of music, Actually, You Can is bursting at the seams with ideas.
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Oct 22, 2021A manifesto that only Deerhoof could create, Actually, You Can is a perfect example of how they achieve what seems like the impossible time and time again -- and with its heroic doses of fun and optimism, it reminds listeners that actually, they can too.
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Oct 21, 2021Actually, You Can might tumble headfirst into doomsday, but Deerhoof’s day of reckoning sounds just as botanical and prismatic and baroque as they proclaim.
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Oct 27, 2021Whatever Actually, You Can may lack in pointedness, it makes up for in raw energy. Yet with all of the intensity and musical bedlam at work here, the brief sections of calm somehow resonate the longest.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 8, 2021Actually, You Can is business as usual, which translates into a 'gloriously unusual racket'. [Jan 2022, p.83]
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UncutNov 16, 2021Lands as another Technicolor blast. [Jan 2022, p.22]
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Oct 26, 2021If you’re a longtime fan of the band, you might be concerned about all this talk of simplification - you might even wonder if you’ll be able to detect the kind of madcap playfulness and mind-bending experimentation that brought you to the band in the first place. You’ll find out that actually, you can.
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Oct 21, 2021‘Actually…’ delivers a fairground of gleeful unpredictability populated by usual Deerhoof tropes: elliptical song titles, a whole gamut of biblical references, and disjointed rhythms that prance majestically between tempos and motifs.
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Nov 3, 2021Actually You Can probably isn’t the best album to introduce the uninitiated to the delights of Deerhoof. By now, you very much know what you’re getting with them, and Actually You Can is another example of why they have such a strong cult following.
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MojoOct 21, 2021Deerhoof being Deerhoof, the arty, poppy, proggy noise is jagged, cathartic, and occasionally grand. [Nov 2021, p.88]