When writing about Deerhunter debuting songs at NoisePop last week, I mentioned “Famous Last Words” was maybe the closest we’d come to hearing the band do a Strokes song. This was before “Disappearing Ink.” Bradford Cox & Co. put the song to tape in their Atlanta practice space for Subterranean — while listening, try not to think of Julian Casablancas singing along, too. Even if you disagree on the Strokes factor, the guys have clearly been bitten by the pop bug: So far this new material goes beyond Microcastle‘s relative concision to something even more straight-up and immediate.

Subterranean mentions this is “just the tip of the Atlanta Week iceberg,” so I’m guessing you’ll get yourself a Black Lips video soon, too.

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Comments (18)
  1. boomfang  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2009

    Yeah but I like when the strokes sound like the strokes. It’s disappointing when bands suddenly do this shit all the time. Deerhunter’s rad too

  2. Dave  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2009

    I dig it

  3. How come everything these guys do is so good?

  4. Luis  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2009

    I’m down with this.

  5. Shockadow  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2009

    You know something festive is gonna happen tonite @ King Khan & the Shrines.
    Balls on skulls!!!
    Balls on SKULLS!!!!!!!

  6. this is great, deerhunter PWNS

  7. wish  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2009

    Wish their threats to break up would finally come true. So sick of this dude and their music. They need a filter on what they release.

  8. Evan  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2009

    Y’know, I love Deerhunter, but this song isn’t doing much for me.. I don’t know..

  9. Their next album is going to be a monster.

  10. julian casablancas  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2009

    Stop ripping me off!

  11. I loved the pop edge in Microcastles but I ain’t digging this Strokes-y vibe, mainly because I don’t really like The Strokes.

    Let’s wait for the official release. Any word when that may be? Later in the year? I guess

  12. swiss cheese pizza  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2009

    I hear Stereolab on this one.

  13. Crytograms- Perfect
    Microcastle- Decent but only because of Weird Era
    Post-Microcastle- AWFUL
    Pretty sure Deerhunter is on its way down the shitter.
    If only they could have stayed art damaged forever…

    • Microcastle/ Weird Era far far superior than Cryptograms. And this is good too. give them a break.

    • You’re such a typical indie dude. My opinion is the exact inverse of yours, this band just keeps getting better and better. I hope they become really popular and lose all their fairweather fans.

      • Yeah buddy, cause you know anything about me. I must be typical for having an opinion. I’m not the one with a name ripped from a hipster blog. But maybe you just didn’t consider that I enjoy the conflict between the ambience and aggression on the A side of Cryptograms thats make the psych-pop B side feel so rewarding and deserved. Maybe I prefer the versions of Active and Calvary Scars recorded on Daytrotter in 07 to the disappointment of how they turned out of Microcastle. Maybe I don’t like it when a band that I once idolized for their creativeness starts playing early 00s garage rock. Maybe I don’t live in new york, don’t have “indie friends”, and don’t care about my hipster status. Maybe you should analyze things a little deeper before attributing a personality to my comment. Maybe none of those things are true. What I can tell you is that you can’t possibly get any more “typical indie” than claiming that you’re not. chose your words Mr. Individual.

  14. shwizzy  |   Posted on Mar 15th, 2009

    You are a douche for getting upset over that. How’s that for an opinion?

  15. miguel erazo  |   Posted on Mar 15th, 2009

    oh man this song is like so layback n perfect wat im lukin in bands. u guys shud put this up for downloads just how it sound now.

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