Deerhunter Stake Out Webster Hall

Friday 10.15
NYC
Deerhunter @ Webster Hall
125 E. 11th St. 212-353-1600. $20. 6 p.m.
with Real Estate and Casino Versus Japan

Atlanta indie psychedelicists Deerhunter burst quickly into prominence with 2007’s amazing Cryptograms, an indefinable stunner that blended shoegaze, Krautrock and indie pop into a blissful and awesome masterpiece. They followed that with 2008’s arguably superior Microcastle/Weird Era Cont., which found the band refining their sound, crafting more tightly constructed and pop-based songs while drawing out some of their more disturbing elements. (Meanwhile, visionary frontman Bradford Cox also released two essential records during this time with his ambient-indie semi-solo side project The Atlas Sound.) The newly released Halcyon Digest may not deliver the immense and immediate shock and excitement of the last two Deerhunter albums, but it’s another magnificent work: hazy, strange and beautiful, it finds new classic melodies in weird strains of dreamlike noise.

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