Actually, You Can

Over eighteen boundless albums as experimental as they are pop, Deerhoof has continuously quested for radical sounds and daring storytelling. 2020's Future Teenage Cave Artists explored fairytale visions of post-apocalypse, welding intrinsic melodies with absurdist digital recording methods. Its sequel Love-Lore, a live covers medley, channeled futurist mid-century artists-Parliament, Sun Ra and Stockhausen, to name a handful- into a patchwork love letter to the anti-authoritarian expressions that inspire the band. Galvanized by the challenge of unifying many styles of music, Deerhoof landed on their next record's concept: baroque gone DIY. Actually, You Can is a genre-abundant record that uses technicolor vibrancy and arpeggiated muscularity to offer a vital shock from capitalism's purgatorial hold. 'In the United States now, to be a moral person means to be a criminal, whether it has to do with a general strike or forming a union or Black Lives Matter protests,' clarifies Saunier of the album's countercultural embrace of liberation. 'If you follow the rules, you're guilty. That's the spirit we were trying to express: an angelic prison bust, a glamorous prison bust.' It's a condemnation of America's mundanity, replacing violence with the heartfelt power of mutualism.

Tracks

1~1~Be Unbarred, O Ye Gates Of Hell
1~2~Department Of Corrections
1~3~We Grew, And We Are Astonished
1~4~Scarcity Is Manufactured
1~5~Ancient Mysteries, Described
1~6~Plant Thief
1~7~Our Philosophy Is Fiction
1~8~Epic Love Poem
1~9~Divine Comedy

Details

Format: Cassette
Artist: Deerhoof
Release Date: 22 October 2021
Genre: Alternative
Label: Joyful Noise Recordings
Distributor: Rocket Group