DeerhoofBest Deerhoof Albums Ranked

Future Teenage Cave Artists

loudandquiet

9.0

“A NOTE: LOUD AND QUIET IS IN DANGER OF CLOSING. PLEASE CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING TO OUR MAGAZINE OR MAKING A SMALL DONATION HERE. THANK YOU. Deerhoof have always seemed a little like Chess Grandmasters, able to be three moves ahead of everyone else. Most bands go a bit stale after 25-ish years, but the San Franciscan quartet just get sharper and sharper, honing their innate unpredictability into an ar”

The Magic

exclaim

9.0

“Otherworldly and full of enchantment, Deerhoof's 13th studio album, The Magic, finds the wholly original and ever-engaging band at their most cohesive and versatile.”

The Runners Four

pitchfork

9.0

“Greg Saunier: When I was in the audience, watching their show, they would start a song, and people next to me would start hugging each other because they loved that song. And I thought that was something that I would really aspire to. To do something where music becomes-- and this sounds ridiculous or pretentious or something-- but where music becomes more than just good music.* * * Any band taki”

Friend Opportunity

pitchfork

8.9

“Deerhoof follow their excellent The Runners Four with another turn away from hyper-complex pop and no wave, and toward accessible, foot-stomping rock.”

Reveille

pitchfork

8.5

“Four albums into Deerhoof's wonderful and frightening career, it's not easy to "expect" anything from them; that's not really what they're "about". But if you figured that their third outing, *Reveille*, would consist of more of the same synapse-frying screeches and rock-driven salvos of noise they've built their name on, you could be forgiven for being wrong. See, there's this line somewhere betw”

Actually, You Can

pastemagazine

8.3

“The experimental group's exuberant 18th album is their leanest and most rocking set of songs in years”