SPILL NEW MUSIC: DEERHOOF RETURNS WITH THE MAGIC! OUT JUNE 24TH ON POLYVINYL RECORDS

Deerhoof Returns With The Magic! Out June 24th

Polyvinyl Records

HEAR “PLASTIC THRILLS” AND “DEBUT” NOW AND CATCH THEM ON TOUR EVERYWHERE

After all the accolades from press and peers, what’s a legendary band to do? Forget the recording studio, rent out an abandoned office space in the middle of the New Mexico desert, set up, plug in and play REALLY LOUD. Starting with hardly a notion of the outcome, by seven days later Deerhoof had found (you guessed it) The Magic: a raw and refreshing 15-song wallop of an album about what happens when you leave your comfort zone.

The version of Deerhoof you hear on The Magic is a most punch-drunk proposition. Everyone showed up in the mood to sing. Satomi, Greg, John and Ed dream up alchemies of punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, attitude and spandex. Poetry into noise. Volume knob into gratification. Friendship into rock band.

According to drummer Greg, the music on The Magic was lurking in the shadows of “what we liked when we were kids – when music was magic – before you knew about the industry and before there were rules. Sometimes hair metal is the right choice.”

For singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, The Magic is but the latest episode of an ongoing gamble: “I joined Deerhoof a week after I arrived in San Francisco from Japan. I hopped on a MUNI bus to have a first meeting but got off at a wrong stop. I was lost and confused. They found me on a dark street corner after I called for help from a pay phone. Since then my adventure expanded. Deerhoof is a vehicle with four powered wheels that takes me through forest, desert and buildings. My life is adventure!”

The Magic is a mixtape imbued with Deerhoof’s sorcery — boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. It is a mixtape by the kid with the biggest music collection you’ve ever seen, who will take you camping and show you how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

The Magic comes out June 24th on Polyvinyl Records and will be supported by an extensive tour.

Pre-orders come with a bonus cassette-only mixtape of Deerhoof covering some of the music they were listening to before recording The Magic. “Pour Some Sugar on Me” by Def Leppard, “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy, “Dance the Night Away” by Van Halen, “Live to Tell” by Madonna, “Your Turn to Run” by Malaria, and others to be announced…

Tour Dates

06/22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel ^
06/23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel #
06/24 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall #
06/25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
06/26 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *

07/07 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall $
07/08 – Vancouver, BC @ Fortune $
07/09 – Seattle, WA Neumo’s $
07/12 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall $
07/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Terragram Ballroom $
07/14 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah $
07/15 – Tuscon, AZ @ Club Congress $
07/16 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom $
07/18 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge $
07/19 – Boise, ID @ Radio Boise Series (Neurolux) $

08/03 – Denver, CO @ The Hi Dive ^^
08/04 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room ^^
08/05 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall ^^
08/06 – Milwaukee, WI @ Mad Planet ^^
08/08 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi Fi ^^
08/09 – Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie’s ^^
08/10 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge ^^
08/11 – Athens, GA @ Athens Popfest (Georgia Theatre)
08/12 – Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall ^^
08/13 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack’s ^^
08/14 – Houston, TX @ Walter’s Downtown **
08/16 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk **
08/17 – Dallas, TX @ Trees **

^ w C Spencer Yeh & Ava Luna
# w/ Kill Alters & Ed Balloon
* w/ Kill Alters
$ w/ Skating Polly
^^ w/ Cowtown
** w/ Cowtown & Tele Novella

Deerhoof
The Magic
(Polyvinyl Records)
Release Date: June 24, 2016

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Track List

01 “The Devil And His Anarchic Surrealist Retinue”
02 “Kafe Mania!”
03 “That Ain’t No Life To Me”
04 “Life Is Suffering”
05 “Criminals Of The Dream”
06 “Model Behavior”
07 “Learning To Apologize Effectively”
08 “Dispossessor”
09 “I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire”
10 “Acceptance Speech”
11 “Patrasche Come Back”
12 “Debut”
13 “Plastic Thrills”
14 “Little Hollywood”
15 “Nurse Me”

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