Deerhoof - The Runners Four [Pink & Blue Vinyl 2LP]

Joyful Noise Recordings

£37.78

Format: 2 x LP, Pink & Blue Vinyl
Catalogue No.: JNR436LPC1
Barcode: 0602309898328
Release Date: 27 Oct 2023
Genre: Rock

Available on vinyl for the first time in over 15 years! The Runners Four is Deerhoof’s double-LP concept album about friends banding together as honorable outlaws in a corrupt world, deciding what to save in an apocalypse, passing secret messages of warning and hope from a remade future back to a soon-to-be-destroyed present. Abundant with lyrical allusions to the flood, where cargo hold claustrophobia inside meets a watery chaos outside, it was written and self-produced by Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich, Chris Cohen and Greg Saunier while they holed up in a rented Oakland rehearsal room for the winter months 2004-5. On pink and blue vinyl.

“A heavy football, a no-half-stepping opus, a defining statement...The Runners Four should occasion a moment to notice how a little band has gotten its scale and balance right: producing strong and inexpensive-sounding records in its own studio, making coverts through frequent touring, changing its sound every six months or so. It’s not easy, especially without becoming part of any movement...”
- The New York Times

“Deerhoof...has succeeded at something that’s very hard to do: It has made records and built a devoted international following on the sheer power of its imagination. And it’s a mad, wild imagination...”
- The Boston Globe

“Deerhoof has forged yet another delightfully odd pop gem, multifaceted and sparkling with creativity.”
- Rolling Stone

Tracklisting:
LP 1:
Side A
1. Chatterboxes
2. Twin Killers
3. Running Thoughts
4. Vivid Cheek Love Song
5. O'Malley, Former Underdog
6. Odyssey

Side B
1. Wrong Time Capsule
2. Spirit Ditties of No Tone
3. Scream Team
4. You Can See

LP 2:
Side A
1. Midnight Bicycle Mystery
2. After Me the Deluge
3. Siriustar
4. Lemon & Little Lemon
5. Lightning Rod, Run

Side B
1. Bone-Dry
2. News From a Bird
3. Spy on You
4. You're Our Two
5. RRRRRRRight