Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Microcastle is the follow-up to 2006's Cryptograms and was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes. It was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox (you may recall his recent solo ventures as Atlas Sound), Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver and Moses Archuleta. Most tracks feature Bradford Cox on lead vocals except "Agoraphobia" and "Neither of Us, Uncertainly," where guitarist Lockett Pundt is the main provider   [ read more ]

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This EP arrives on the heels of a well received sophomore full-length, Cryptograms. While exploring themes not especially dissimilar, the EP functions in many ways as an epilogue to both the full-length and the accompanying well-reported anxiety surrounding it's creation. The band now has a clean slate to explore something entirely new in the future.

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Still riding high on the success of critically acclaimed full-length, Microcastle, Deerhunter are ready to go again with a new, five song EP, Rainwater Cassette Exchange. "..evokes a misty, floating milieu, and is more in tune with pop-oriented material the band has been focused on as of late." - Prefix Mag

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Deerhunter's first album, the self-titled release from Atlanta-based Stickfigure, was a cacophonous, messy, punk-driven record that banged and pulsated along in the shock and anger after bass player Justin Bosworth's sudden death in 2004. By the time the band set about recording their second album, however, they had added another guitarist, one who focused more on twisting and mechanizing sound, and had calmed down considerably. Because of this, much of Cryptograms meanders about in the {\exp   [ read more ]

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