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10.0
108700
10.0 |
The Skinny
The slow, crumbling decline of civilisation has rarely sounded so good
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9.0
108753
9.0 |
Exclaim
They continue to look forward and create music that feels unlike anything else out there. This one is no exception: it's the perfect antidote for these bleak, modern times
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9.0
108759
9.0 |
God Is In The TV
The first five songs on the record are stunning in their emotional impact and musical scope
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9.0
108821
9.0 |
Clash
Surging into new ground while retaining elements of their classic sound
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8.5
108684
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
While time will decide whether it’s the best Deerhunter album, WHEAD? can lay claim to being the most ‘Deerhunter’ Deerhunter album. It’s utterly, completely, resolutely and defiantly them
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8.2
108839
8.2 |
Earbuddy
Atlanta's Finest make an album about our awful world without somehow including trap drums or glitch-pop
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8.0
108915
8.0 |
All Music
From the weariness and wonder in its title to the mix of delicacy and anger in its songs, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? is one of Deerhunter's most haunting and thought-provoking albums
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8.0
108823
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A singular thing, not quite of this world, desert fruit ripening quietly on the eve of the end
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8.0
108968
8.0 |
Under The Radar
Deerhunter are still a band that are completely beholden to music's ability to spiritually transcend even the worst state of things
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8.0
108819
8.0 |
The FT
The band’s eighth album combines melodious charm with sharper, more confrontational passages
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8.0
108751
8.0 |
The Music
An extension of the ideas Cox was flirting with on the band’s 2015 album, Fading Frontier, only this time he’s replacing guitars with harpsichords to execute a grand detournement from the rock'n'roll genre
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8.0
108720
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
In thirty-seven minutes, it offers up a plethora of intelligently crafted societal takes and yet presents them invitingly enough that, if you’re so inclined, you can just let the music wash over you
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8.0
108744
8.0 |
The Quietus
If we are in the end times, let’s listen to beautiful music about the end times
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8.0
108763
8.0 |
No Ripcord
The temperamental shifts in Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? give it a cold, distancing effect, as they incorporate offbeat sounds that seem influenced by electronic composers like Delia Derbyshire. But there's still that punchy quality that gives them a pop framework
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8.0
108765
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Though the band is now squarely in its pop era, the nostalgia that laced its early records has morphed into a timely, fatalistic vision of the future and national decay
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8.0
108773
8.0 |
DIY
Deerhunter have often dealt in lofty, intense blows, but on album eight, they provide a breezy distraction from the chaos outside, and it’s most welcome
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8.0
108787
8.0 |
The Independent
On Deerhunter’s eighth album, frontman Bradford Cox takes on the role of war poet, documenting the things he observes with a cool matter-of-factness, and heart-wrenching detail
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8.0
108707
8.0 |
PopMatters
Deerhunter's eighth studio album wrestles with escapist and confrontational impulses, and continues their exploration of shifting sonic identity
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8.0
108679
8.0 |
The Guardian
Recorded in rural Texas, this atmospheric album switches from psych-pop to alt-rock to experimental lo-fi, held together by Bradford Cox’s drawl
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8.0
108681
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Album closer Nocturne is a distillation of the record’s conceit, bringing a lightness of touch to its swaggering percussion and synthesisers. It is unpredictable and compelling – classic Deerhunter
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8.0
108658
8.0 |
Uncut
Some of Deerhunter's prettiest songs to date
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8.0
108659
8.0 |
Q
It is a lean and often brilliant album. Print edition only
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8.0
108660
8.0 |
Mojo
More exploratory than Fading Frontier, but there's a minimalism that helps its stark ideas and sad-eyes melodies shine through. Print edition only
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8.0
108661
8.0 |
NME
This is how you turn pop into art
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7.5
108789
7.5 |
A.V. Club
You get the feeling you’ve been thrust into a dream, temporarily torn from the present in order to observe it, understand what’s going on, and return to reality with new tools to keep that all-encompassing fear at bay
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7.5
108747
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Along with Fading Frontier, the album presents a new era for Deerhunter, one more contemplative and spacious yet continually beguiling
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7.5
108834
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Certainly their best album since Halcyon Digest
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7.5
108841
7.5 |
Gig Soup
Deerhunter have clearly reached their pop faze but only time will tell if they can make the breakthrough that has thus far eluded them
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7.5
108855
7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Cox himself has said that the band’s golden age is over, yet this album, like the band’s previous two, only gets better with repeated listening, and if this is the sound of a band in supposed decline, they can still smoke nearly any other outfit working at their peak
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7.0
108662
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
This is a Deerhunter album, so closer listening reveals much more going on beneath the surface. To be fair, though, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? isn’t as viscerally challenging as many of the band’s prior efforts
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6.8
108971
6.8 |
Paste Magazine
Even in these most dire of times, an illuminating embrace can create a sense of ease and assurance
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6.5
108838
6.5 |
The 405
It would be nice if Deerhunter had a clearer plan of attack on nostalgia culture, but instead Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? boils down to merely a really nice sounding pop rock record. It’s frustrating for an album with such confident production to leave its message behind
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5.8
109178
5.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
The pleasures on Disappeared are highly attenuated: almost every good melodic or structural idea is cushioned in some greater manifestation of banality or aggravation
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5.0
108919
5.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Cox can’t disappear, and the more he tries to distance himself from his sound, the more his sound becomes obtrusive, just there and concretely his, like a terse encore and nothing more
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4.0
108710
4.0 |
Crack
Tired indie tropes – wilderness metaphors and twee imagery about village greens and country roads – keep resurfacing, like a New Year’s resolution that has quickly slid away to be replaced by the same stale habits
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