Deerhunter - Microcastle/ Weird Era Cont.

Microcastle is a record both worrying and heartening, an unbearably honest depiction of the human condition. It's what makes Deerhunter such an addiction for its core support: this band are painfully frank in their negativity, and yet the overriding sensation is curiously vivifying. On 'Little Kids' Bradford Cox muses, over and over, on the certainty of getting old against an oceanic spread of guitar delay that earmarks the Atlanta, GA group as the rightful heirs to My Bloody Valentine's throne. But what really sticks out about this album is a new-found directness, most apparent in 'Nothing Ever Happened'. Microcastle has an artillery of melodies that are simply pouring from it, but it's the band's ability to balance joy and disarray that makes this one of this generation’s great alternative records.