The Dinner Party Download Episode 209: with Deafheaven, Chuck Klosterman, Herb Alpert and more.. Take A Listen
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First Listen: Deafheaven, ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ // NPR
Deafheaven’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love comes out July 13.
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Esquire Magazine & NPR “Best of SXSW” Deafheaven Makes Their List
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My NPR colleague Mike Katzif called Deafheaven “the Sigur Ros of black metal,” and he’s right on the money. The San Francisco band’s music heaves and builds and pummels majestically, and then singer George Clarke lurches defensively and shrieks angrily like a mother hawk protecting her young. Brutal and bracing, with a shoegazing indie-rock band’s ear for graceful melodicism. - Stephen Thompson
NPR music // Interview with Deafheaven’s George Clarke
George Clarke (second from right) says that before Deafheaven began making its third album, New Bermuda, “The only real place to go was down.’
After releasing one of heavy metal’s most polarizing and celebrated albums in years with 2013’s Sunbather, Deafheaven faced a question familiar to those bands who’ve managed to capture that rarest kind of success: What happens now? Maintaining the creative trajectory that had won them adulation from critics and listeners presented enough of a challenge by itself. Combine it with the fact that the San Francisco-based black metal hybrid group presents an aesthetic challenge to a genre where high value is ironically placed on conformity, and the tension that could have easily crippled the group before writing even the first note of its third album, New Bermuda, the conflict instead worked to tremendous effect.
At just over 45 minutes, New Bermuda is a thematic reality check on its predecessor’s starry-eyed daydream. The hopeful aspirations and desperate grasps for the seemingly unreachable threaded throughout Sunbather are grounded with quick and unforgiving intensity within the first few minutes of New Bermuda’s opening track, "Brought to the Water.” But just as Sunbather at once infuriated and captivated the gaping maw of heavy metal traditionalists with its so-called “bastardization” of black metal, shoegaze and post-rock, New Bermuda further explores those uninhibited musical constructs, resulting in a kind of cynical vulnerability much darker than anything else the band has created so far.
On New Bermuda, Clarke screams his disenchanted rage against the backdrop of guitarist Kerry McCoy’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor–meets-Johnny Marr guitar playing. Contrasting Clarke and McCoy’s tandem agonized melodic digressions, Daniel Tracy (drums), Stephen Clark (bass) and Shiv Mehra (guitar) roar with an unhinged dissonant furor. As difficult a task as it can be to drown out the hypercritical noise that naturally follows when traditions are overturned, New Bermuda answers potential challenges with an conviction far more engaging than the reactionary skepticism it has received. In a recent conversation, Clarke was reserved but — as his songwriting tendencies indicate — disarmingly vulnerable and honest as he discussed New Bermuda and the significance of moving the album beyond its predecessor.
NPR Question of the Week gets answered with George Clarke and Deafheaven
Last night I witnessed an intense and commanding performance. The band was Deafheaven and lead singer George Clarke kept me riveted. Here’s what it looked like captured by my phone:
Now this is not a vocal style I gravitate toward, but something happened last night that I don’t usually see in a performance: two opposing emotions were coming at me at the same moment. There was fierce venom from George Clarke and, believe it or not, a kind of grace when he wasn’t lurching or screaming (you can see it near the end of the video, when he stretches his hands out over the audience). I kept expecting to feel agitated and instead watching the catharsis felt oddly heartwarming. I also madly loved the abrupt shifts in the music — explosive, pensive and beautiful. - Bob Boilen
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Deafheaven’s Roads To Judah - On End of Year Lists: NPR, Pitchfork, Decibel, AV Club, Metal Sucks, Treble
Deafheaven’s album Roads to Judah out now on Deathwish, Inc has been ending up on a lot of Best Metal Album of 2011 Lists. We agree, the album kicks serious ass.
With ‘Honeycomb,’ Deafheaven Matches Its Expansive Promise
Full feature by Lars Gotrich via NPR
The secret of the pearl’s beauty is secretion: Layers and layers of calcium carbonate and conchiolin form over a microscopic intruder in a process intended principally to protect the mollusk’s internal domain, but also produces a gift for the patient pearl fisher. Deafheaven has spent eight years layering its exquisite and extreme sound, its eureka moment of gauzy black metal most realized on Sunbather and adventuring beyond with 2015’s New Bermuda. It’s the latter that reached more ears, but sometimes felt unformed in its sonic array — still something to behold, but not quite ready to be broken open.
Deafheaven Announce New Album “Sunbather” Coming on Deathwish In 2013
San Francisco’s Deafheaven have had an exciting few years since their inception in 2010; the band has toured 27 countries worldwide supporting bands like Godflesh, Alcest, and Russian Circles, released 2011’s opus Roads to Judah which hit #6 on NPR’s Best Metal Albums of the year and #22 on Pitchfork’s Top 40 Metal Albums, were mentioned in Esquire Magazine as “Brutal and bracing, with a shoegazing indie-rock band’s ear for graceful melodicism”, and have received endless critical praise from magazines and websites across the globe. Now, Deafheaven are excited to announce they have confirmed studio time at Atomic Garden with producer Jack Shirley (who also worked on Roads to Judah) from January 21st through January 26th to record their second full-length album, Sunbather. Deafheaven vocalist George Clarke commented, "For this record, we had a couple options with who to record with, but after a lot of thought, agreed that to capture our best performance at our most comfortable state, the best choice was Jack. He’s always done a great job and we’ve grown a lot together in the last two years.”
Sunbather will feature new songs written by Deafheaven’s primary songwriters Kerry McCoy and George Clarke, and deluxe artwork provided by Nick Steinhardt. Clarke mentioned of the new Deafheaven tracks: “While the new material is more developed, we’ve strayed from what was previously a more melancholic approach. The black metal aspect to our music is prevalent in the new material, but I don’t think it’s necessarily the focus this time around.” Lead guitarist Kerry McCoy continued, “There are a lot of harsh, dark vibes on Sunbather, but don’t be surprised at how lush and rock-driven, even pop-driven certain aspects will be.” Sunbather is set to see the light of day in late Spring of 2013 via Deathwish Inc. with touring and festival appearances to be announced soon.
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