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| 0.0 | Matt French CONTRIBUTOR | March 20th 11 |
If I had to pick a single word to define Deerhoof's Deerhoof vs. Evil i would choose 'quirky'. Of course, another word that comes to mind and at first is ?innocent,? which inherently makes this album sound endearing. This notion is obvious once the listener gets a taste of Satomi Matsuzaki's cutesy voice. Tracks like "Super Duper Rescue Head!" are absolutely adorable - seriously, who isn't smiling when Satomi delivers these lines: 'Me to the rescue, me to the rescue / Hello, Hello, you lucky so-and-so'. Satomi's voice is so fun to listen to in fact, that I would it disguises the complexity of a lot of the tracks, but that's a great thing really, as none of them come off as sickeningly ambiguous. What's most fascinating is how they can make engaging songs out of simplistic lyrical content ("Hey I Can") and employ artsy noise-rock without it coming off as bloated and nonsensical ("The Merry Barracks"). Don't overlook this one, folks, there are so many reasons to love Deerhoof vs. Evil.
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| 2.0 poor | OutOfMyself | January 5th 11 |
Deerhoof Vs. Evil feels more like a compilation of B-Sides than an actual, cohesive album. Although the tracks have their moments, many of them struggle to hold a consistent sound the whole way through. There are moments of brilliance though in between all of the filler though, and they really show Deerhoof shining. Sadly, these glimpses of talent stuck between large sections of pointless music eventually makes the release a frustrating and rather confusing mess.
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| 3.0 good | LiquidSwords | January 5th 11 |
There are some cool sounds here, but there's no progression (neither in the individual songs nor in the track to track), and that makes each song only half-way interesting for about 30 seconds.
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| 3.5 great | Myri | March 27th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | TMTrates | February 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | GeorgeH | February 17th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | tnd | February 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Filling | February 22nd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | gvogel | January 9th 12 |
| 2.5 average | T0rr35 | August 15th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Skyler | July 23rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Guigss | April 30th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | April 2nd 11 |
| 3.5 great | Rowdy | March 23rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | natey | February 23rd 11 |
| 4.5 superb | conradtao EMERITUS | January 17th 11 |
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