多数乐迷初接触Deerhunter,或许是透过2007年的迷幻杰作《Cryptograms》,亦或是隔年的《Microcastle》甚至近期的《Halcyon Digest》。这三张专辑,确实替这组亚特兰大摇滚乐团,筑构出一套气象万千的新迷幻三部曲。
而其实,刚出道时也曾出版实验气息浓厚的低传真专辑《Turn It Up Faggot》,尽收录纷乱灵动的曲子。
The debut album by Atlanta new wave revivalists Deerhunter (officially untitled, but listed in the Stickfigure Records catalogue under the name "Turn It Up Faggot," a taunt the band claims was often directed at them during their early gigs) is a pleasant change from all the B-52s and Joy Division worship that goes on under that banner. In its place comes an aggressive blend of guitar skronk and rhythmic pummeling that's a direct descendent of fellow Georgians like the Method Actors and the early, aggressive side of Pylon. The five-piece band favors a squalling, echo-heavy sound that makes individual instruments and vocals nearly impossible to make out: the loudest sound to pierce through the murk is as likely to be a simple one-note piano part or thwacking hi-hat cymbal as anything else. The resulting mess of a sound is a take it or leave it affair that some listeners will find an impenetrable wash of noise. The intrepid who stick with it will find a compelling mix of dance-rock throb and noisy drones that sounds like a happy-feet cross between early Sonic Youth feedback squalls and the most krautrock-influenced and dance-oriented aspects of the Fall.