Critic Reviews. Score distribution:. Positive: 25 out of Mixed: 2 out of Negative: 0 out of The Skinny. This album seeks to ask questions, to entertain and to create. While the destination may be nebulous, Deerhunter know that the enjoyment lies within the journey.
The slow, crumbling decline of civilisation has rarely sounded so good. All this publication's reviews Read full review. The Line of Best Fit. All this publication's reviews. In that sense, then, it's a classic album-fan's album, attention spans be damned. From the weariness and wonder in its title to the mix of delicacy and anger in its songs, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
Pretty Much Amazing. This is rhythmically agile music, thankfully. Tiny Mix Tapes. User Reviews. Write a Review. Positive: 8 out of 9. Mixed: 1 out of 9.
Negative: 0 out of 9. This is a more mature record, about a very lucid point of view about the contemporary world, no nostalgia involved. The lyrics reflect the This is a more mature record, about a very lucid point of view about the contemporary world, no nostalgia involved. The lyrics reflect the modern society in a very raw, realistic projection, with topics like capitalism and death.
Most of the themes are not about personal experiences like in Cryptograms or Halcyon Digest, instead this record talks from a "not much future left" perspective about the current situation. Which sounds sad, but i think is what Bradford Cox and company want to express with their art nowadays, and you can hear that a lot of thought has been put on the production of this album. Every song feels tight and very consistent, this is not a "we have to put another album out" situation.
In recent years, the band perspective on life has changed, their desire to write about this topics feels justified and not forced.
Great production, amazing songwriting and instrumentation. Might be their best since Halcyon Digest. The songs play like cohesive nuggets of subconscious creativity. The lyrics are imbued with a concerned, if somewhat distant, existential passion. I would give this album an 8. Unlike most Deerhunter albums, except for maybe Monomania, the music is very upbeat, even perky and bouncy, like Stereolab of whom Bradford Cox is a big fan.
However, the lyrics are probably Mr. Cox's darkest yet; all of the songs are about death. The album is probably Deerhunter's most psychedelic so far; "Greenpoint Gothic" is a very Stereolab instrumental, and "Detournement" is a dystopian-sounding electronic piece with an unnerving spoken word performance by Mr.
The album is probably Deerhunter's most pop-oriented, too, but it is still avant garde. Overall, the band continue to both challenge and please with an album that sounds both pleasant and unnerving, like walking around in some future dystopian world. A sickly, simple guitar solo reinforces the illusion that the song takes place in both an arena and a coffin. The vertigo of the combination makes an ideal vessel for the lyrics. Deerhunter are in their pop era now, even as their lyrics remain unflinchingly bleak.
In his own authoritative voice, Cox calls upon an air travel metaphor, too, greeting various countries around the globe with postcard phrases. Repetition induces decay; just ask William Basinski , whose series of Disintegration Loops repeats a musical phrase on fragile tapes until holes start to obliterate the sound. Nothing happens to the machines, even as the walls close in and the environment seems to teeter on the verge of collapse.
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