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Rating: Admirers of the noble Spacemen 3/ Spirtualized lineage, here is a worthy successor: Deerhunter - Cryptograms.
The chronicles tell us of chaos in the recordings and in the singer's mind absolutely worthy and fitting to the band's manic sound. The album was recorded in two different sessions lasting one day each, a year apart. However, instead of two types of composition, we find 3:
1. the drone of reverbs, echoes and ambient sounds without drums: pure floating.
2. the hypnotic trance-inducing rock with attached inaudible/distorted/stripped voice
3. the 60s dream pop/rock flower children style oh yeah
Beyond classifications, the record works, the tracks travel greatly with my particular preference for the sound in point 2. The award for the most shamanic spaced-mans-sound piece goes to "Octet": a psychosomatic and psychogenic ride that will make your head go into a great glorious short circuit. However, the title track and "Lake Somerset" also succeed in their wild repetition of cryptogrammatic minimal riffs reinforced by various noises and sounds.
With "Spring hall Convert" it seems like another album begins: the darkness dissipates and light begins to filter through although it's still a sick light. The pop vocalizations become obsessive and create a sonic vortex that sucks the listener's soul. The full light (always tinged with melancholy to tell the truth) is only with the next track "Strange Light": and from there to the end it stays on sunny sixties pop with a special mention for the beautiful "Hazel st". The ambient tracks, however, are mainly found in the first part and although they are not bad, they are the classic pieces of the genre, decent but a bit taken from the catalog of the good acid post-psychedelic shoegazer.
Despite the genre jumps, the record flows well with the possibility of identifying a reading key in the transition from the claustrophobic and sick atmospheres of the first part to a progressive liberation of emotions and a greater openness in the compositions typical of the second part. Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Cryptograms (04:17)
My greatest fear, I fantisized:
The days were long, the weeks flew by
Before I knew I was awake
My Days were through, it was too late
My greatest fear, I organized
Into something more realized
And now what’s left I get to spend
Knowing that its about to end
My greatest fear I can’t decode
A cryptogram whose seeds weren’t sewn
My last few months I irised out
My vision blurred
There was no sound
There was no sound
04 Lake Somerset (03:49)
It pays to kill
Anyone who has information
In the park, we hide behind rocks
We urinate on rocks
Until the sun comes up
Encrypted in flesh
Concrete soaked in sweat
We lived in Lake Somerset
It was south of Dallas Highway
Just east of a drained lake
Orchids disolve
Equations solved
Psychic Landscape
To know there is a limit to what you can experience
These walls I know, I grew up here
(No satisfaction)
09 Strange Lights (03:38)
What direction should we choose
We’re lost and still confused
I walk into the sun
With you the only one
Who understood the ways
The hours became days
The weeks turn into months
We walk into the sun
So glad to have a guide
Less lonely for the ride
And should this car ascend
At least I’m with a friend
In space all things are slow
No sound with speakers blown
The silence fits the scene
The prince is now the king
Neon blurs my sight
I’m guided by strange lights
I’m rattled and I’m stunned
We walk into the sun
12 Heatherwood (03:37)
In the beginning the world was a map
Out through the back door and into the trap
Home is an echo reflecting a place
I disappeared then and without a trace
I was arranged to leave on that day
There were complications I’ve chosen to stay
I saw the curtains and it was the end
When one life is over a new one begins
Was not seen again
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