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- Summary: The latest release for the experimental rock band was recorded in seven days in an abandoned office space in New Mexico.
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- Record Label: Polyvinyl
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 17 out of 20
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Mixed: 3 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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Jun 24, 2016The Magic, the band’s aptly named 13th album, is the loosest, most expansive Deerhoof LP in some years.
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Jun 22, 2016Otherworldly and full of enchantment, Deerhoof's 13th studio album, The Magic, finds the wholly original and ever-engaging band at their most cohesive and versatile.
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Jun 20, 2016They’re weird. Wired. Wonderful. They sound like no one but themselves, and they’re still getting better.
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UncutJun 20, 2016It all hangs together, propelled by a sense of fun that, 22 years on, still pervades every note. Trot on. [Jul 2016, p.73]
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Jul 15, 2016Ever-evolving they may be, but Satomi’s oddball pop songs are another band staple; this time they deliver the cutesy, punky, and thoroughly entertaining Nurse Me.
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Jun 22, 2016Yet aside from the variety exhibited when the jazzy futurism of “Model Behavior” gives way to the anthemic grandstanding of “Learning to Apologize Effectively”, it’s surprising just how vintage some of the music on the album sounds.
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Jun 20, 2016There's no escaping a diminishing ability to knock listeners to the floor.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Sep 25, 2016
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