Over eighteen boundless albums as experimental as they are pop, Deerhoof has continuously quested for radical sounds and daring storytelling. 2020s Future Teenage Cave Artists explored fairytale visions of post-apocalypse, welding intrinsic melodies with absurdist digital recording methods. Its sequel Love-Lore, a live covers medley, channeled futurist mid-century artistsParliament, Sun Ra and Stockhausen, to name a handful into a patchwork love letter to the anti-authoritarian expressions that inspire the band. Galvanized by the challenge of unifying many styles of music, Deerhoof landed on their next records concept: baroque gone DIY
Actually, You Can is a genre-abundant record that uses technicolor vibrancy and arpeggiated muscularity to offer a vital shock from capitalisms purgatorial hold. In the United States now, to be a moral person means to be a criminal, whether it has to do with a general strike or forming a union or Black Lives Matter protests, clarifies Saunier of the albums countercultural embrace of liberation. If you follow the rules, youre guilty. Thats the spirit we were trying to express: an angelic prison bust, a glamorous prison bust. Its a condemnation of Americas mundanity, replacing violence with the heartfelt power of mutualism.
Track Listing
Be Unbarred, O Ye Gates of Hell
Department of Corrections
We Grew, and We Are Astonished
Scarcity Is Manufactured
Ancient Mysteries, Described
Plant Thief
Our Philosophy Is Fiction
Epic Love Poem
Divine Comedy
