“The experimental group's exuberant 18th album is their leanest and most rocking set of songs in years”
“Deerhoof is in banger mode on Actually, You Can.”
“Through a collection of songs that range from anxious garage funk to mercurial power pop, the San Francisco experimentalists argue for an urgent remaking of the world.”
“Actually, You Can is Deerhoof at their most simplified”
“Actually, You Can is Deerhoof’s third record released in little more than a year. In the band’s own words, it’s their “Baroque-gone-DIY” album, and it takes Satomi Matsuzaki, Ed Rodriguez, John Dieterich, and Greg Saunier’s ability to create over-the-top pastiches, mixing different and colliding bits of popular and high culture, to the highest point. They try interpolating “a Handel aria, a Maya A”
