Deerhoof
Deerhoof is an American indie rock band that was founded in 1994 in San Francisco. The band is known for her unconventional musical structures and is well received by most critics.
History
In March 1994, the drummer and keyboardist Greg Saunier and guitarist Rob Fisk started the band. The founder of the label Kill Rock Stars, Slim Moon, took the two in 1995 under contract. In the same year the singles Return Of The Wood M'Lady and For Those of Us On Foot published. Satomi Matsuzaki 1996 came to who had moved from Tokyo to San Francisco. Although they had previously not had any professional experience as a singer, she was henceforth responsible for the vocals. Later Matsuzaki and Saunier married.
In 1997, the first album, The Man, the King, the Girl appeared. After the release of their second album Holdypaws in which Matsuzaki played bass for the first time, Rob Fisk and Kelly Goode left the band. Last, who had taken over the keyboard of the band was added in February 1998. After the recording of the third album Half Bird joined John Dieterich of the band as a guitarist, who should have at the band's albums Xiu Xiu together with Greg Saunier also guest Parts. Half Bird appeared in 2001.
The breakthrough came with the 2002 published, fourth plate, Reveille. In 2003, Chris Cohen as second guitarist new to the played at this time in his band, The Curtains. In 2006, he came out again. Followed by three more albums, Apple O ', Milk Man and The Runners Four between 2003 and 2005. While Apple O ' originated in an afternoon, and to grow with The Runners Four a longer album, which is why it has about twice as long duration as the previous albums. Even before the publication of the eighth album Friend Opportunity 2007 the band had already secured a large degree of popularity. Reveile and Apple O ' were in the list of the 100 best albums from 2000 to 2004 by Pitchfork Media. Friend Opportunity reached number fourteen of the U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums chart in a week. Together with film music composer Ed Shearmur worked the band to their fans next to Matt Groening and Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen Orzolek heard on the soundtrack to the 2007 independent film premiered Dedication.
Style
Satomi Matsuzakis singing is bright, brittle and wrong. Instrumental determine " shattering beats, stinging sirens deposits, a Gitarrsaite that on a 20 -tonne trampoline ends up like a 10 -ton weight " the music Deerhoofs. The band is often associated with the noise rock. On FriendFeed Opportunity to progressive rock elegance would mix with folk elements and naive pop music, according to Andreas Fast in intro.