Halcyon Digest | Loppylugs

Submitted by the panel on 17 February 2013 - 9:34pm

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Artist:

Deerhunter

album-ID:

a_93

Nationality:

USA

Year:

2 010

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Earthquake*Don’t Cry*Revival*Sailing*Memory Boy*Desire Lines*Basement Scene*Helicopter*Fountain Stairs*Coronado*He Would Have Laughed

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_34

Now-num:

Spotify-URL:

1HUMjB15ARg96KIypcGzYY

Grooveshark-URL:

Halcyon+Digest/4998693

Short-title:

halcyon

nominator-ID:

u_43

Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

MusicBrainz-URL:

d03a3ae3-4a33-4c50-8501-00710070549c

Wikipedia-URL:

Halcyon_Digest

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

halcyon-digest/deerhunter

Discogs-URL:

Deerhunter-Halcyon-Digest/master/278175

Allmusic-URL:

halcyon-digest-mw0002022940

BBC-URL:

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69

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Luckily this doesn't make me want to play Russian Roulette

8

Helicopter' isgthe only tune I can bring to mind, months later after discussing. That one song is still great. Bu generally I like Derrhunter and the sound they make. They could make a good 'best 'of album, but this isn't it.
66

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

6

I like the track Desire Lines, it gets my feet tapping and head nodding.
64

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

8-11

6-9-10

There was a brave sparseness to the arrangements, but there is a danger in stripping back so much you hear how little there is at times in the songwriting. And it is not as affecting emotionally as you might hope for in a sound that it is so sparse and open.

There are a fair variety of sounds / styles but it felt much more of a cohesive album than the other two offerings this month. I picked up on tinges of mainstream acts such as Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, John Lennon but they were all subtle enough to my ears. I thought Helicopter was the highlight, a lovely, dreamy, sparkly sound that stretched the singer a bit more. Overall, though, I don't think it was strong enough emotionally, melodically or lyrically to match the open, direct sound they went for.
60

reviewed by

Richard Norbury