The Man, The King, The Girl Review

07/13/2005 6:05 AM, AMG


On their second full-length, this San Francisco project continues its reckless recombination of noise, abstraction, and the occasional turn to structure -- while the album's free-form noise-fests come somewhere between the Boredoms and Caroliner, Deerhoof frequently bring this experimentation full circle into fuzzy, out-of-control pop territory ("A-Town Test Site," "Polly Bee"). This alternation between abstraction and structure (with both underpinned by raw live drumming and female vocals) seems to work better than either would by itself, appealing to both ends of the noisy, unstructured pop spectrum. The album also includes five tracks from one of the bands' live performances. ~ Nitsuh Abebe, All Music Guide