Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter

Halcyon Digest, the Atlanta band Deerhunter's album of September 2010, is the one where their fuzzy, restless noise pop turned warm and wistful, like a memory half recovered from a warped cassette. They made it as a four-piece, Bradford Cox and Lockett Pundt on guitars, Moses Archuleta on drums and Josh Fauver on bass, producing it themselves with Ben H. Allen at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, Georgia, with David Barbe engineering. It was their first record handled by 4AD around the world; before this, Kranky had looked after them at home.

The closer, "He Would Have Laughed", Cox recorded separately at Notown Sound in Marietta as a tribute to Jay Reatard. It was also the end of an era: Fauver's last album with the band. The acclaim was universal, and when the decade was tallied Pitchfork put it at 29 and Stereogum at 78 among its best albums.

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