Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
It's funny how sometimes certain things a band does just click with me and others don't. I loved Deerhoof's indie pop "Matchbook Seeks Maniac" when we did it back in the Jukebox of old (I would link, but Google is turning up nothing and I don't feel like searching through 50+ editions for it). Its parent album Friend Opportunity didn't do much for me though, and neither did its follow up. Deerhoof vs. Evil, though, I keep coming back to.
It's such a perfectly formed (and small) package of melody and intrigue, as accessible as it is unpredictable. Take the single "Super Duper Rescue Heads!" which combines a lovely crystalline synth riff, cutesy chants, crunching guitars and a couple of sections of clattering noise. Clattering, but somehow friendly. Which goes for the whole album, really - they manage to take great numbers of hooks and ideas (and occasionally rock out - see "Secret Mobilization") but fit them all together in such a way that it just seems like a natural and inclusively fun thing to do. And, on the likes of "Must Fight Current" and "I Did Crimes for You", imbue them with a heart-melting level of sincere emotion too.
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