Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier has introduced his debut solo album: We Sang, Subsequently We Had been arrives on April 26 through Joyful Noise. Saunier has shared the brand new LP’s lead single, “Develop Like a Plant,” on which he handles vocals, guitar, and bass over the precise sort of maniacal drum work on which he’s constructed his title. The music comes with a music video that includes dancer Sophie Daws transferring alongside to the beat in a wig; watch it under.
In a press launch, Saunier defined that “Develop Like a Plant” is indebted to Captain Beefheart’s “Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish,” from Trout Masks Duplicate, and was written within the octatonic scale that Igor Stravinsky made well-known with The Ceremony of Spring. As for the music’s lyrics, these delve into the intersection of overinflated conceitedness, self-annihilation, and modern-day fascism.
Unsurprisingly, however no much less spectacular, Saunier performs each instrument himself on We Sang, Subsequently We Had been. The album took place when, throughout some downtime between reveals in early December, his Deerhoof bandmates inspired him to make a document of his personal. “With nobody to please however myself, it got here collectively method quicker than traditional. It was mainly carried out by the vacations,” mentioned Saunier. “I had been excited by the announcement that the brand new Rolling Stones document was going to sound ‘offended.’ I assumed, ‘Sure, I’m offended too.’ However Hackney Diamonds turned out extra like cotton sweet than punk rock. So I went again to Nirvana.”
Final yr, Deerhoof launched Miracle-Degree, the nineteenth studio album of their profession and the primary sung completely in Satomi Matsuzaki’s native language of Japanese.
