Having formed in 1994, Deerhoof is now that fateful age and by rites it's the band's turn to go out and challenge the world. The same way a rebellious adolescent turns tough and irrational, Greg Saunier, Ed Rodriguez, John Dieterich, and Satomi Matsuzaki just up and split from San Francisco, the only home they've ever known as a band, and left behind all notions of what a "Deerhoof record sounds like."
The result is Deerhoof vs. Evil. The musical equivalent of hormones raging out of control, it explodes out of the speakers with its gawky triumph and inflamed sentimentality. These are songs that practically demand that you dance and sing along (however elastic the rhythms, or abrupt the melodies). Right from "Qui Dorm, Nomes Somia" (sung in Catalan), you know you're hearing a daring band, unafraid of the consequences of failing (critics be damned).
To document their musical "coming-of-age" the band members could only trust themselves. Besides their cover of an obscure Greek film soundtrack instrumental ("Let's Dance the Jet"), and a song done for NY artist Adam Pendleton's documentary film installation BAND ("I Did Crimes for You"), these songs were completely self-recorded, mixed and mastered in practice spaces and basements with no engineers or outside input.
Ironically the result is polished, blissfully exuberant, and huge-sounding. Going DIY meant freedom to reinvent themselves, playing each others' instruments, altering those instruments so drastically as to be unrecognizable, (those aren't Joanna Newsom or Konono No. 1 samples, those are John and Ed's guitars), and generally splashing their sonic colors into the most unexpected combinations. 
NEWS May Flexi is Deerhoof! (May 14, 2012) Announcing: JNR store/performance space, Cassette Sampler! (May 9, 2012) Kishi Bashi "151a" now available for instant download (March 22, 2012) Surprise! Super limited SXSW Cassette Sampler! (March 15, 2012) Kishi Bashi "151a" now available for pre-order (March 7, 2012) of Montreal "Paralytic Stalks" out now! (February 9, 2012) Kishi Bashi signs with Joyful Noise! (January 19, 2012) Announcing the 2012 Flexi Disc Series - featuring new music from Tortoise, Deerhoof, of Montreal, Lou Barlow, etc. (December 14, 2011) SWAPS Out Now! (ltd. edition release featuring members of Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, XBXRX, etc) (September 22, 2011) Announcing... SWAPS! (featuring 50% of Deerhoof, members of Secret Chiefs 3, XBXRX, Gorge Trio, Colossamite, etc. etc.) (August 3, 2011) Deerhoof vs. Evil released Today! (January 25, 2011) Deerhoof Global Album Leak! (November 2, 2010) Announcing... Deerhoof vs. Evil on cassette! (October 11, 2010) | 
