Dan Deacon
His new album Bromst dropped on March 24th. Spiderman of the Rings was one of my favorite albums from 2007. With his new release, comes a new idea though: play as fast as this using real drums. And that he did, with the help of musicians from Ponytail, the Ultimate Reality Tour, and others. He claimed in an interview from the beginning of the year the album would be "darker". Although true, the Saturday morning sugar high dance music does not slow down. The first three tracks are four-on-the-floor, intensely fast rockouts. Of the Mountains and Snookered are slower, but quickly polyrhythm into starry-eyed dance anthems, a model that deacon also uses on the epic Slow Horns/Run For Your Life. Like the electronic moan that dominated Spiderman, his newfound addiction seems to be vibes, marimbas, and xylophone. The first track, Build Voice features a part for player piano if you listen in and focus on the piano part its almost scary how fast he's written it. Suprise Stefani halts the album for a time before bringing in ear splitting vocoders and looping beyond recognition. His final track Get Older seems to harken back to his first album using much more electro melodies, buzzes, and whistles than most of Bromst. At any rate I hope its a joke, because although Bromst is more mature, it still sounds like a kid out of school after 2 Flintstone's push pops and a line of coke...or something.
