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here is some recent deerhoof press...

“Bay Area rockers come up with an art-damaged marvel of an album.” ROLLING STONE, “Buy These Now” (January 26, 2006)

THE NEW YORK TIMES
#6. Deerhoof, The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
A rock band so truculently unpredictable, and using such old-fashioned firepower in its rhythm section, that an explanation won’t do; you have to feel its physical and intellectual bite.

BILLBOARD - 2005 Year In Music / Artists’ Choices

BECK
Deerhoof, The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)

JEFF TWEEDY, Wilco vocalist
Deerhoof, The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
“Everytime Deerhoof makes a record it kind of blows my mind.”

“It’s not easy to be an avant-garde rock band these days – just about everything has been done before, from extremely quiet to extremely loud, from monotonously droney to cartoonishly unpredictable. Which is why the endlessly surprising San Francisco band DEERHOOF stands out so much. A decade into its career, the group still has plenty of tricks. Its stop-start songs, with jagged guitars and a drum style somewhere between jazz and metal, sound intriguingly extraterrestrial beside Satomi Matsuzaki’s nursery-rhyme vocals. The band tours constantly, and has refined its timing and dynamics to spectacular precision.” Monday at 7:30pm, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancy St, hear the Bowery, Lower East Side. $13 (sold out).
The New York Times – Arts & Leisure, “The Week Ahead” (January 29, 2006)

ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL - Best of 2005
DENNIS COOPER, author
Deerhoof, The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars/5RC)

MOJO - Artist Picks
AL KOOPER
“my current favorite band”

TIME OUT NEW YORK - The Best Albums of 2005
Hank Shteamer
#1. Deerhoof, The Runners Four (KRS/5RC)
The Bay Area art-pop darlings transcend quirk with their richest material to date.

CMJ - Best of 2005, Top 30
#6. Deerhoof, The Runners Four (5RC/Kill Rock Stars)
Deerhoof put their puffiest panda paws forward—all the tricky guitar angles, all the spasmodic drums, all the abrasive cuddliness, all the "alulululu." What should be a messy no wave jumble is somehow an expansive noisepop masterpiece full of comfy fables that should warm "the little lemon who still lives inside of you." (CRW)

PITCHFORK - Top 50 Albums of 2005
#6. Deerhoof, The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
It's not in Deerhoof's DNA to be a pop band; their strange amalgam of octopus drumming, lyrical manga, and Siamese-twin acrobat guitars is far too unwieldy to be conveniently packed into mass-digestible form. Luckily, nobody bothered to tell them about this limitation, and as a result The Runners Four gives us 20 different misses at conventional songwriting, silly attempts at traditionalism that go fascinatingly awry in every way possible. All the noisy interludes and muso noodling of Deerhoof's previous work weren't so much discarded as assimilated, creating songs that give fleeting impressions of normalcy before shooting off down unpredictable alleyways, bursts of noise that give way to eerie, beautiful calms or absurdly tight rhythm-holding-the-band-hostage moments. Even in that alternate dimension critics love to cite, The Runners Four would be too weird for radio; on Earth-1, it's one of the year's most playfully dense, eminently relistenable calamities. --Rob Mitchum

TINY MIX TAPES - Top 25 Albums of 2005
#2. Deerhoof, The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
"some of the prettiest, hardest-rocking, and most downright joyous pop songs of 2005. And unlike other tunes that might compete, there was no ‘guilty pleasure’ here: each song on The Runners Four sounded completely original and inimitable."

So, why no posters in Wellington?? Not everyone hangs out on the internet all day...

what a stunning gig last night! deerhoof were amazing. cheers julian for bringing another awesome band to wellington. I heart velvet tiger!

they blew me away....