Details: Deerhoof Miracle-Level, White LP or CD format, 2023, Joyful Noise Recordings. New stock, sealed.

Description:“Recorded in single takes with minimal overdubs, the San Francisco bands latest albumit’s first sung entirely in Satomi Matsuzakis native Japaneseis a confident set of small epiphanies. … Miracle-Levelcelebrates the heady euphoria that can result when skill and craft meet with serendipity and happy accidents like a long-running indie band teaming up with the former owner of Lil Bub and hustling out a full album in two weeks studio time. The idea that an artist even knows what theyre doing I think its a lie, Saunier said in arecent podcast interview. Its an illusion that we tell ourselves for the purpose of making selling the record easier. We dumb it down to a blurb. A melody doesnt have to have a meaning, it just is. Or, as Sauniertold another recent interviewer, Generosity, creativity, and love are just as much human nature as competition, coercion, and brutality. Do you believe in miracles? No? Become ice cream then.”–Pitchfork

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1.Sit Down, Let Me Tell You a Story.
A2. My Lovely Cat!
A3. The Poignant Melody
A4. Everybody, Marvel
A5. Jet-Black Double-Shield
A6. Miracle-Level

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B1.And the Moon Laughs
B2. The Little Maker
B3. Phase-Out All Remaining Non-Miracles by 2028
B4. Momentary Art of Soul!
B5. Wedding, March, Flower

CD TRACK LISTING:

1. Sit Down, Let Me Tell You a Story.
2. My Lovely Cat!
3. The Poignant Melody
4. Everybody, Marvel
5. Jet-Black Double-Shield
6. Miracle-Level
7. And the Moon Laughs
8. The Little Maker
9. Phase-Out All Remaining Non-Miracles by 2028
10. Momentary Art of Soul!
11. Wedding, March, Flower