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On Chlorophyll (Olive Green) Vinyl. Over eighteen boundless albums as experimental as they are pop, Deerhoof has continuously quested for radical sounds and daring storytelling. 2020's Future Teenage Cave Artists explored fairytale visions of post-apocalypse, welding intrinsic melodies with absurdist digital recording methods. It's sequel Love-Lore, a live covers medley, channeled futurist mid-century artists-Parliament, 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 record's 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 capitalism's purgatorial hold. InchIn 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,Inch clarifies Saunier of the album's countercultural embrace of liberation. InchIf you follow the rules, you're guilty. That's the spirit we were trying to express an angelic prison bust, a glamorous prison bust.Inch It's a condemnation of America's mundanity, replacing violence with the heartfelt power of mutualism. With state lines and oceans separating band members, Deerhoof not only reinvented their sonic and thematic credo, but also their recording process. Deerhoof's players are not strangers to home-recording their individual parts, and have long embraced composing via file trading. But 2020's halt to touring kicked off their longest separation from playing together, foregrounding new priorities. As the group's combined demos became increasingly layered, bassist and vocalist Satomi Matsuzaki put her foot down, insisting the new album should replicate concert ene
