Deerhunter

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• Genre: Indie/Alternative

About

Deerhunter messes with notions of '90s shoegazer and '00s post-punk (a la Yeah Yeah Yeahs) in equal amounts. Formed in Atlanta in 2001, the five piece released a pair of discs on Kranky and toured around the States. Their live show, which features the antics of extremely thin singer Bradford Cox, tends to polarize audiences, as evidenced by a string of angry and hilarious comments from audience members on the band's myspace page. Writes one such poster, "I've seen over 100 shows in my life and I've seen bad, believe me, but you guys take the cake." Regardless of whether or not the band's music is good or bad, at least it got under someone's skin. Their second full length, Cryptograms, alternates between blip-bleep weirdness, psychedelic noise pop and melodic love songs.

- Mike McGuirk