Milk Man

Description

Deerhoofs Milk Man is being reissued on vinyl. Limited to 1000 copies on 180-gram colored vinyl. The starting point for Milk Man was a cartoon character created by Japanese artist Ken Kagami, a longtime friend of Deerhoof vocalist Satomi Matsuzaki. In contrast to the earnest guitar rock that predominated on their previous album Apple O, Milk Man featured a broad palette of orchestral colours, echoes of music theatre and camp, polished and gaudy arrangements, Stravinskian harmonies, and a more stylized, anonymous playing style resulting partly from recording most of the instruments at separate times rather than playing together as a band, and partly from many of the arrangements being created in a computer. Critical praise for Milk Man came notably from NME and Spin. The song Milk Man was chosen in 2009 as one of Pitchforks top tracks of the decade.