Today Only DEERHOOF – The Runners Four – Double Coloured Vinyl LP

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, 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