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With hardly any other band, experimenting with the most diverse styles sounds as light-footed as with Deerhoof. Indie rock, noise and art pop, prog and avant-garde, pomp and punk form fleeting connections. While their last album, ACTUALLY, YOU CAN from 2021, sounded like a secret meeting between The Mars Volta and Stereolab, MIRACLE-LEVEL, the 19th album since the band was founded in San Francisco in 1994, is opening new doors again.
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It’s the first Deerhoof album to be recorded entirely in a real studio with a real producer (Mike Bridavsky) – with no negative impact on the band’s musical core. But the most important change is that vocalist/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki sings in her native language, Japanese. The vocal language sometimes influences the music. Like the title track, which sounds like a Japanese folk song. Otherwise, MIRACLE-LEVEL delivers the expected unexpected: Prog structures, punk thunderstorms, ballads and outbursts of noise.
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