“On "Monomania", Deerhunter have replaced the relatively straight lines of Halcyon Digest with something altogether more thorny. When it gets to the final third of the song, in which Bradford Cox simply intones the title over and over, there’s a venom there, a feeling of genuine malice rising, a sense of arrival in a much darker place than before. This is Deerhunter digging hard into their punk roo”
