Deerhoof "The Runners Four" Pink and Blue RE 2XLP (2023)

Details: Deerhoof "The Runners Four" Pink and Blue Re-issue 2XLP (2023, Joyful Noise Recordings). New stock, sealed. Limited edition reissue.

Description: "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, and 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

"Deerhoof…makes the difficult wonderful." - The New Yorker

"At first, The Runners Four is close to incomprehensible. Songs stop as soon as a hook seems to form; rhythms shift and cut like they're running for their lives…but when the mystery lifts and the melodies finally stick—and they do—the album has the undeniable power of complete originality." - TIME

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A01. Chatterboxes
A02. Twin Killers
A03. Running Thoughts
A04. Vivid Cheek Love Song
A05. O'Malley, Former Underdog
A06. Odyssey 

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B07. Wrong Time Capsule
B08. Spirit Ditties Of No Tone
B09. Scream Team
B10. You Can See

TRACK LISTING SIDE C:

C11. Midnight Bicycle Mystery
C12. After Me The Deluge
C13. Siriustar
C14. Lemon & Little Lemon
C15. Lightening Rod, Run

TRACK LISTING SIDE D:

D16. Bone-Dry
D17. News From A Bird
D18. Spy On You
D19. You're Our Two
D20. Rrrrrrright