The opener ‘The Tears And Music Of Love’ is pure genius: Imagine a deranged garage band in deepest Newfoundland trying (and failing) to cover the AC/DC hard rock classic ‘Highway To Hell’.
This track has to be heard to be believed. The rest of the album by San Francisco band Deerhoof is largely made up of vaguely folky rock jams with a whiff of psychedelia keeping everybody on their toes. ‘Offend Maggie’ is no sit-back-and-relax album, rather an uneasy trip down to where the mushrooms grow.
Watch Deerhoof Perform ‘The Tears And Music Of Love’
This is really as straightforward and melodic as it gets. The title track, ‘Offend Maggie’, and ‘Family Of Others’ are played pretty tight and with strong folky overtones. At other times, Deerhoof freak out and, depending on how straight or skewed you like your rock, loose the plot a bit.
On the punchy side we have ‘Snoopy Waves’ and ‘Fresh Born’, demented blues rock jams that stutter to a halt, start again, stop… garage rock fans, there are more treats on the album for you apart from ‘The Tears’!
A track blessed with a particularly high ‘weird factor’ is ‘Basketball Get Your Groove Back’: A nursery rhyme set to scratchy pop punk. If you are a New Wave collector and have heard of ace 70’s Belgian combo the Honeymoon Killers, well, than this is the closest you’ll get to their particular brand of theatrics.
Listen here to ‘Offend Maggie’
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Deerhoof are holding one big, sprawling car boot sale of musical influences on this album. Full of ideas and just slightly scruffy around the edges, this is an album for all of you who like their music raw but gentle at the same time.
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