Remember how you felt when you were 16?

Deerhoof is now that fateful age, and by rites it's the band's turn to rebel. As if on some adolescent impulse, this year Satomi Matsuzaki, Ed Rodriguez, John Dieterich, and Greg Saunier, just up and split from San Francisco, the only home they've ever known as a band, and left behind all notions of 'what a Deerhoof record sounds like.'

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"the most magical thing about Deerhoof's space satellite is the human heart it controls."
ARTROCKER, Album of the Month

"a riot of riffs and psychedelic pop...good news for fans of crayon-scrawled psychedelic indie rock"
THE GUARDIAN

"16 years into a career that has inspired brainiac bands from Radiohead to Dirty Projectors, Deerhoof could justifiably be described as art-pop elder statesmen. Except it's hard to imagine a sound less statesmanlike than the joyous racket of their 11th LP. Theirs is a rare ability to combine ideas, emotional depth and melodic thrills."
Q

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