Joyful Noise Recordings

Few copies in stock with minor wear on sleeves, pictures can be sent upon request.

Did you know that miracles happen every day? We don’t always see it that way. We look at the state of the world and think, “It’ll be a miracle if we make it out alive.” But miracles are what humans do. We’re Earth’s most inventive and unpredictable species, when we’re allowed to be.

Also the most destructive. Miracle-Level is Deerhoof’s mystical manifesto on creativity and trust. It celebrates the infinite small wonders of existence that spontaneously present themselves, when not obstructed by our death-driven masters.

Musically, Miracle-Level is vulnerable, brave, and brimming with spicy surprises. Deerhoof’s 19th album is also their their first to be recorded and mixed in a recording studio. Production was entrusted to Mike Bridavsky, at No Fun Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

This is also their first album written entirely in Satomi’s native language. Deerhoof once again speak in a secret code that only their fans understand, in which hooks abound, and genre is nonexistent. 

Tracklisting: 
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 
10. Non-Miracles by 2028 
11. Momentary Art of Soul! 
12. Wedding, March, Flower

Few copies in stock with minor wear on sleeves, pictures can be sent upon request.

One of Deerhoof’s most celebrated albums available on vinyl for the first time in 18 years. The Runner’s Four received rave reviews from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NME, The New York Times, Time, e New Yorker, MOJO, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Tiny Mix Tapes and more.

Deerhoof’s last album with guitarist and songwriter Chris Cohen. 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, 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

Tracklisting:
LP 1: 
Side A
1. Chatterboxes 
2. Twin Killers 
3. Running Thoughts 
4. Vivid Cheek Love Song 
5. O'Malley, Former Underdog 
6. Odyssey 

Side B
1. Wrong Time Capsule 
2. Spirit Ditties of No Tone 
3. Scream Team 
4. You Can See 

LP 2: 
Side A
1. Midnight Bicycle Mystery 
2. After Me the Deluge 
3. Siriustar 
4. Lemon & Little Lemon 
5. Lightning Rod, Run. 

Side B
1. Bone-Dry 
2. News From a Bird 
3. Spy on You 
4. You're Our Two 
5. RRRRRRRight 

Oneida has been a cornerstone of the Brooklyn underground for nearly two decades. Always evolving, the group has been a beacon of musical exploration and enthralling unpredictability, gaining legendary status among heads that know and expanding the limits of what it means to be a rock band.

With a discography spanning over a dozen full-lengths, plus live releases, EPs, singles, and limited one-offs, Oneida has demonstrated a mastery of collective improvisation, off-kilter songwriting, complex composition, and everything in between. In 2011 Oneida lost its home base, its studio dubbed the Ocropolis in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, due to the pervasive gentrification and over-development of the neighbourhood that was once a thriving arts community.

After watching the Monster Island building that housed the Ocropolis transform into a pile of rubble, the band began an intense period of exploration and discovery, retreating from the studio in favor of the stage, and birthing a panoply of limited, uncompromising releases that documented the band's continuously unfolding journey.

Six years after the release of A List of the Burning Mountains, the final emission from the Ocropolis, the band will release their newest studio creation Romance, their first album for Joyful Noise Recordings and a record marked by wild eclecticism, even for a group known for its shape-shifting nature.

Recorded over several years in various locales, the 11 songs on Romance are built around deeply developed long-arc rhythm/phase concepts, noise, yearning, blind guitar rage, longing, the lurch of dying electronics, and a multi-modal embrace of human fallibility and artifice.

From the crackling synth-led opener 'Economy Travel' to the expansive 18-minute epic 'Shepherd's Axe,' Romance is an album in constant flux. On 'Bad Habit' the band employs phasing between organ and guitar to great, disorienting effect, while the primitive riffs of 'Cockfight' offer a contrasting vision of rock minimalism. Listen closely on 'Lay of the Land' and you will hear constant rhythmic development, with drummer Kid Millions eschewing repetition in favor of morphing patterns of hi-hat and snare. As with all mystery, Romance reveals more through closer attention and multiple listens.

Oneida, always formidable in the live environment, will be touring throughout the year. Kid Millions remains one of the most in-demand drummers in New York, exploring the outer reaches of percussion music with his own Man Forever project, as well as playing with Laurie Anderson, Royal Trux, and People of the North with Oneida compatriot Bobby Matador.

Bobby also takes part in the psych-pop duo Nurse & Soldier, and recently formed yet another duo called New Pope. Guitarist Shahin Moita is a co-founder of underground stalwarts Ex Models and Knyfe Hyts.

Through it all Oneida remains a powerful collective voice, a propulsive force for wildness and excitement, with Romance heralding the return of the epic, artful ballad version of the journey.

Tracklisting:
1. Economy Travel
2. Bad Habit
3. All in Due Time
4. It Was Me
5. Good Lie
6. Lay of the Land
7. Cedars
8. Reputation
9. Cockfight
10. Good Cheer
11. Shepherd's Axe

Release Date: 09/03/2017