Do you like record albums like these?
Muse recently reviewed Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest album from 2010. https://www.nouse.co.uk/articles/2024/04/04/exploring-the-psychedelic-nostalgia-of-deerhunters-halcyon-digest
My favourite Deerhunter record is Halcyon Digest. My last look at Deerhunter’s Bandcamp page was shortly after I learned the band disbanded. The discography for Deerhunter ended before Halcyon Digest, which is a curious way to delay the completion of their Bandcamp discography.
It’s been a long time since Bradford Cox last performed music, except for one small appearance with another person doing a noise rock show, and the television appearances by MGMT which featured that outfit doing Pink Floyd songs with the Deerhunter rocker in the performances.
There are observations about every song on Halcyon Digest included in the Muse review.
It explains Cox’s most pressing health concern during Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest, which I found fascinating.
This also explains the meaning behind Halcyon Digest’s closing song He Would Have Laughed, which made Deerhunter seem like one of the most important indie bands ever.
Not that I had any idea this was going on at the time. At the time, I wasn’t a big late-night TV watcher when Deerhunter performed a song from Halcyon Digest on one of the late shows.
It was a mess—as much a guilty pleasure as that song is. First viewing the video and getting my first look at Bradford Cox, I was aghast, asking the universe what was wrong with him. Would he be okay?
Like someone like Iggy Pop, he seemed cool.
A lot of the extra material that accompanied Deerhunter’s discography of indie rock albums as they made their name for themselves quickly challenged that perception, though.
That’s quite a cat, Bradford Cox.
The mysterious song on Halcyon Digest by the other songwriter in Deerhunter is interesting. Deerhunter played it a lot of times. It was a fan favourite.
The two musicians in Deerhunter always seemed to have a friendly relationship as bandmates.
As a matter of fact, there’s been more to the picture that’s been explained now.
The drummer of the band, Moses Archuleta, has a new album, Cemetery Classics. It’s an album going under the name New Moon Diagrams. Stereogum has a story about it https://www.stereogum.com/2261956/deerhunters-moses-archuleta-announces-new-moon-diagrams-album-cemetery-classics-feat-patrick-flegel-cindy-lee-josh-diamond-gang-gang-dance-anastasia-coope/music/
I am looking forward to listening to that.
The best Deerhunter album, according to Bradford Cox: “Anybody that doesn’t like it has no idea” https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-best-deerhunter-album-according-to-bradford-cox/
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