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Jan 25, 2011On this, the group's most consistently engaging album in years, pretty much every one of those ideas works.
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Jan 25, 2011Even more than those artists' fantastic new albums, Deerhoof vs. Evil musically captures the essence of this hard-to-fathom-but-entirely-possible future.
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Jan 10, 2011Deerhood vs. Evil is just simultaneously astounding and utterly familiar, correct, and right.
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Jan 18, 2011Even for Deerhoof, this is a tricky album to work your way through. But even if you never quite figure it out, it's unlikely you'll get tired of trying any time soon.
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Mar 4, 2011Deerhoof vs. Evil is more tentative than the group's best work, but its consistently dazzling musicianship carries the band as it explores different themes on a new label.
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MojoApr 12, 2011San Francisco art-rockers deliver the perfect prog-pop hit. [Feb. 2011, p. 100]
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Q MagazineFeb 1, 2011Playful pop brainteasers from the cult quartet. [Feb. 2011, p. 114]
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Jan 31, 2011If familiarity breeds contempt, regularity breeds complacency, and Deerhoof's prodigiously consistent output should not overshadow how precious they are.
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Jan 28, 2011Deerhoof Vs. Evil is a stylishly composed work done from four gifted musicians who are more than happy to be sarcastically snarling at you the whole time.
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Jan 27, 2011Deerhoof are spazzy, but not sloppy, and their execution is as serious as the atomic bomb on the album cover.
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Jan 26, 2011The album feels disarmingly unspoiled. Recorded and mixed in do-it-yourself fashion, it is rougher sounding than the band's other recent releases, with a more approachable scale.
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Jan 25, 2011It's proof that, once again, Deerhoof can craft something fresh and different after so many albums. In their world, evil and boredom are practically the same thing, and Deerhoof vs. Evil triumphs against both.
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UncutJan 19, 2011Deerhoof are close to knocking the Flaming Lips off their exalted perch. [Feb 2011, p.82]
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Jan 19, 2011Even though the initial delight wears off relatively quickly, this is still a weird and largely wonderful insight into a band equally capable of frustration as they are innovation.
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Alternative PressJan 11, 2011When they do attempt to play things straight, it hits the mark with impressive accuracy, commanding your attention--and a few of your most limber-limbed dance moves. [Feb 2011, p.87]
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Jan 31, 2011Deerhoof vs. Evil is predictably unpredictable and a fun little experiment from a band seemingly incapable of recording a bad album, but it's hard to imagine returning to this years from now as often as their better work.
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The WireApr 28, 2011It's clever stuff, but if it's sweat you want, you're probably better off going for a run. [Mar 2011, p.48]
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Feb 7, 2011All told, when the worst thing you can say about an album is that it falls underneath the band's grand shadow, you know you've still got a pretty solid record.
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Feb 2, 2011Dominated by Satomi Matsuzaki's cute vocals, this is might be a laid-back record, but it's still one that's wonderfully challenging.
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Feb 1, 2011The resulting record is at once deliciously fragmented and oddly together - each track thriving on Deerhoof's unnerving balancing act of composure and recklessness.
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Jan 25, 2011Deerhoof vs. Evil breaks no new ground; The Merry Barracks and C'Moon boast the band's signature mix of dissonance and pop tunefulness, with surreal lyrics that can be too self-consciously quirky.
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Jan 24, 2011Compared to the wild noise they made on albums like Milk Man and Reveille, Deerhoof vs. Evil is definitely a different kind of wild noise all on itself. Don't expect the crazed madness of the former's title track but don't expect to be disappointed either.
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Jan 24, 2011Basically, this is the Deerhoof album we've all come to expect: provocative, infectious and characteristically unpredictable.
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Jan 18, 2011Their songs, while essentially playful and lovable--more so than ever on Vs Evil, the San Francisco band's 10th album, which features near-lounge music moments--have a hard centre and are often tricky to parse, thanks in no small part to Satomi Matsuzaki's lyrics.
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Under The RadarJan 10, 2011Deerhoof vs. Evil provides one more set of indelible hoof prints that mere feet can't quite duplicate. [Year End 2010, p.69]
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Jan 7, 2011On an album that clocks in at only a little over half an hour, the band's fight against the dark forces would seem to be one that they've come out the better from.
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Jan 27, 2011Deerhoof's found a groove without compromising their special place in the animal kingdom.
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Jan 27, 2011They're sticking to their M.O. of repeating a single odd musical or lyrical phrase ("I did crimes for you, they're coming true!") again and again until it sounds like a hook; beyond that, you can tell that they're trying to wriggle out of what they've been doing in the band's previous phase, but haven't quite figured out what comes next.
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Feb 1, 2011As it stands, Deerhoof seems to have lost its footing a bit with this one.
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Jan 20, 2011Alas, the manic pace of the total structural collage makes it awfully hard to settle in as a listener. Deerhoof vs. Evil has a Guernica quality, in which pleasure and humanity are sublimated to the grotesque, which in turn is justified by the supposed inevitability of rational progress.
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Jan 14, 2011Deerhoof's trademark guitar-noise scribbling has been transformed in the studio, resulting in bulky, segmented yet hummable compositions that signify--we think--the triumph of cutesy creativity over grouchiness.
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Jan 25, 2011Ultimately Deerhoof Vs Evil isn't going to bring about any revolutions by itself. And while the people who love Deerhoof for being Deerhoof will certainly like this, it's no place to start for anyone else.
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