{"id":905,"date":"2010-05-14T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2010-05-14T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:37:33","slug":"deerhunter-club-academy-4-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"Deerhunter, Club Academy, 4 May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s something not quite right with Bradford Cox.\u00a0 <\/span>Tonight specifically, I mean: what begins with a late start and some fairly surreal musings ends with the sound-tech lining-up receptacles for a threatened up-chuck by the front-man.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The last time I saw Deerhunter make their waves of big noise it was in broad daylight, in the afternoon shift at the Deaf Institute.\u00a0 <\/span>The crowd was slightly thrown but enthusiastic, although considerably smaller than that at Club Academy tonight.\u00a0 <\/span>Having worried that the group might struggle for atmosphere in a venue I\u2019ve only ever experienced a quarter full it\u2019s busier than I\u2019ve ever seen it when I arrive just before showtime – I must have been seeing the wrong bands.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The four-piece has only re-released one EP since that last Manchester gig, nearly a year ago, so I assume it\u2019s the success of Cox\u2019s second album as Atlas Sound, Logos, which has pulled people in.\u00a0 <\/span>This might explain the slight bemusement that seems to greet Deerhunter\u2019s spirals of fuzzy guitar, which sit a fair distance from Logos\u2019 more melodic immediacy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a fan of the band\u2019s 2008 album Microcastle, and have a reasonable knowledge of its predecessor, but I struggle to pick out more than about five tracks from the layered distortion, reverb and echo that pervade the set.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m clearly not the only one and, by the fifth song, Cox is starting to worry about the lack of feedback from off the stage.\u00a0 <\/span>He\u2019s jet-lagged, however, as he explains to excuse the slight randomness of his comments, and certainly grateful to be playing to people as interested in the stage as the bar. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s definitely a polite curiosity emanating from the floor, despite the lack of an obvious connection, but how does one connect with a sound like Deerhunter\u2019s?\u00a0 <\/span>Most of us are a bit past the shoe-gazey down-turned head-sway, though I spot a couple of brave attempts; I try tapping a foot to the songs\u2019 thumping backbone but I\u2019m on a high stool so it doesn\u2019t really work.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I certainly can\u2019t sing along, at least until Nothing Ever Happened airs half an hour in, but suddenly familiarity flies at me from all sides.\u00a0 <\/span>Not only is this one of my favourite Microcastle tracks but the first guitar solo reminds me of early U2, and I\u2019m just getting over the surprise of that when Cox stages a Live Aid-style foray into the front row.\u00a0 <\/span>The next minute, he\u2019s whooping like he\u2019s about to launch into In God\u2019s Country – these are not comparisons I expected to be making.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Twilight at Carbon Lake plods rather by comparison, despite another crescendo of reverb.\u00a0 <\/span>Apparently anxious to bond with the audience Cox starts chatting, but I\u2019m not sure he helps matters: he recognises a fan from Paris, he doesn\u2019t like Foals\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a little out of it, you know,\u201d he admits.\u00a0 <\/span>We know.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The janglyness of Operation resumes the pace and in places I\u2019m reminded of The Wedding Present, until Cox once again starts whooping like a mid-career Bono.\u00a0 <\/span>Perhaps he can\u2019t help it: returning to the stage for a two-song encore he confesses a mounting nausea, blamed on a pre-gig feast at a certain global burger outlet. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully the threatened puke doesn\u2019t materialise, and Agoraphobia finally sees me lost in the dreaminess I associate with Deerhunter\u2019s studio sound.\u00a0 <\/span>My reverie\u2019s short-lived \u2013 it\u2019s 11.15 and the lights click on before the band\u2019s left the stage \u2013 but I just about got what I came for, from the outfit my other half deems \u201cprog\u2019s noisy shoegazers\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jo Nightingale<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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