7.5
Avg Score
6
Opinions
#10,157
All Time
10
Tracks
“They continue to look forward and create music that feels unlike anything else out there. This one is no exception: it's the perfect antidote for these bleak, modern times.”
“Though the band is now squarely in its pop era, the nostalgia that laced its early records has morphed into a timely, fatalistic vision of the future and national decay.”
“There aren’t many bands who can reach their eighth LP and still have the listener at a genuine loss as to what to expect going in, but Deerhunter are one of them. Their latest arrives nearly a decade after their career highlight to date, 2010’s ‘Halycon Digest’, and you wonder whether, on an alternate timeline, they might have taken a different turn – a more straightforward one – after that album”
“The slow-burn success of The National must be dark music indeed to the ears of Bradford Cox. It’s proof that, with the age of the alt-rock hit single behind us, art-rock bands can still build a crossover cult army over numerous albums of esoteric character and no little challenge. The frontman of Atlanta’s Deerhunter – a band as a kin to The National as they are to a broad range of indie cults suc”
“There’s no question that Deerhunter are deep thinkers. The title of this, the band’s eighth effort, makes that point perfectly clear. The implications dig below the surface, probing questions about the very essence of life itself during an age where nihilism runs rampant and there’s a disconnect practically everywhere — from reality, from compassion, from other individuals. “I’m gone, I’m gone, I’”
“Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared is hands-down the blandest entry in Deerhunter's discography.”
