Seems like their latest opus, Friend Opportunity was heavily influenced by being on the road with Radiohead last year. Here's what drummer Greg Saunier told NME: "If you can imagine coming home from a Radiohead concert and 20,000 people are all in tears and everyone loves it...you turn on your rough mix and it sounds garbage in comparison."It sounds like nothing in every way; the sound is not as good, the emotion seems so dim and the overall power of it doesn't connect. That feeling, while depressing at first was such a great help in a way, to be devastated by music again...that's how we felt." Saunier discussed the approach his band took to their music after touring with Thom Yorke and co.
He stated: "It's not that we ever wanted to imitate Radiohead's music, but we did want to do something that sounded good AFTER Radiohead. In other words Radiohead put out 'Amnesiac' - what's somebody going to do, not to top it but to respond it as if in a musical conversation? We treated it like a question, a call to which we wanted to respond in the music world."
*Read our reviews/photos from Deerhoof's show at McCarren Pool HERE & HERE!
MP3: Deerhoof - +81
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