New album Halcyon Digest from Atlanta's Deerhunter has been getting some well deserved rave reviews.

It's been on heavy rotation at neoloop for the last month and it's one of those albums where your favourite track changes with every listen. First it was the shimmering grooves of first single Helicopter that pulls you in. Then the last track He Would Have Laughed (a tribute to the late Jay Reatard) is just utterly captivating with it's blissed-out sonic textures. Bradford Cox's last side project as Atlas Sound really influencing the bands proceedings on this, their fourth album. But right now I can't get enough of this track - Desire Lines - another epic track with a melodic, feel-good hypnotic groove. This time the vocal duties are handed to guitarist Lockett Pundt. You can hear influences of Echo and the Bunnymen and My Bloody Valentine throughout this glorious collection of songs and there's also a hint of Exile On Main Street era Stones creeping into it's DNA. Produced by Ben Allen notable for his production work on Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and it's definitely in the same league as that seminal album. It's grand it's instant and challenging and it's a highly recommended record, love it.

Like this? Try: Atlas Sound, Animal Collective, 

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