[Live Animals] Good New Music Friday: Deerhunter - "Cryptograms"

Time for a start of a new tradition on Sceneless. I'd like to post some new music at least once a week. That's not too much to ask, is it?

This week, I'm going to join the web bandwagon and proclaim Deerhunter as "Good New Music".

Their second full-length album Cryptograms is the result of two short sessions separated by one year. The first half is mostly like a softer cousin to Liars' Drum's Not Dead, and the second is truly illuminating pop disguised by psychedelic artifice.

Give the title track a spin. It starts out with a pulsing bass and eventually builds layers of delayed noise to a coda of fevered chanting. I love it:

[mp3] Deerhunter - "Cryptograms" (kranky)