Monomania
A jagged, blown-out excursion into nocturnal garage punk. Screeching guitars, overdriven vocals, and tape hiss replace the band's signature ambient fog.
A jagged, blown-out excursion into nocturnal garage punk. Screeching guitars, overdriven vocals, and tape hiss replace the band's signature ambient fog.
Abrasive pivot
Screaming guitars and thick tape hiss slice through the band's usual ambient fog. You are plunged into a dark, oil-stained garage where every vocal track redlines into beautiful, blown-out noise.
Dive Bar saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
Critics generally welcomed the album's abrasive and unpredictable new direction, finding a distinct charm in the balance between gritty textures and accessible songwriting. While the sharp stylistic departure felt slightly jarring to some, most reviewers appreciated how the band maintained their signature emotional depth amid the sonic chaos.
“There are just a handful of tracks on Monomania that could be aptly described as “sounding nothing like Deerhunter,” and that’s part of its charm”Read review
“Whereas both Deerhunter and Atlas Sound albums typically reflect the obsessive brilliance and meticulous pathos of Cox’s personality, there’s few signs of either on Monomania, which is in dire need of a little less impulse and a bit more OCD”Read review
“Their most accessible record yet, but no one does "accessible" quite like Bradford Cox”Read review
“A confident and competent continuation of established qualities”Read review
“There is clearly no quietude in Cox’s frantic mind, but his obsession yields beauty”Read review
“Deerhunter never achieve cohesion of style or energy on Monomania”Read review
“They’ve pulled off something admirable in making an illogical left turn feel like the logical next step where one didn’t exist”Read review
“Monomania achieves what it set out to be: an avant punk record”Read review
“The range of Cox’s musical scope is laid bare”Read review
“It’ll find its calling this summer as the band’s most fun album”Read review
“By turns raw and reflective, Monomania is about shaking things up; it’s not as grand or cohesive as Microcastle or Halcyon Digest, but with repeated listens, its quick shifts in sound and mood feel more like different sides of the same coin than a split personality”Read review
“In Cox’s vision exists this album of much rock rather than weird rock. It’s half as strange as anything Deerhunter or Atlas Sound has made before, but twice as reflective of, well, music”
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