2007, Kranky
With this EP, Deerhunter accommodates fans put off by Cryptogram’s decidedly freaked-out sound, without alienating the hopheads and experimentalists who reveled in their full length’s woozy washes and white noise symphonies.
I wouldn’t say that Deerhunter have completely scrapped their old modus operandi in favor of poppier accessibility, but Fluorescent Grey is certainly a transition piece—a junction between two roads for the band. Let me tell you, friends, it is a strange and wonderful place.
The self-titled opener on the EP uses Cryptogram’s resplendent exit track as a springboard as guitars chime and Bradford Cox gives clipped, druggy delivery. Reminiscent of 80’s British psychedelia without feeding on its corpse (Editors, Interpol, Bravery, take note), Fluorescent Grey soon diverges from an easily digested opening into shimmering cascades of sound and haunting, bottom of the well vocals. Impeccable.
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