Lotus Plaza
The Floodlight Collective

With the opening, shimmering, moments of “Red Oak Way,” one could easily confuse it as the first song on the next Deerhunter album. Truth be told, Lot...

The last couple of years have seen Bradford Cox become alternative music’s pin-up boy of sorts, what with the outrageously frequent and potent recordi...

The man behind the curtain of Kranky's latest addition to the world of scintillating experimental pop music can often strike a very unassuming pose. O...

Atlanta-based quintet, but The Floodlight Collective is a bit too derivative of what proceeded it. The Floodlight Collective features every spare esse...

That Lotus Plaza’s debut record is about as good as either/any of the Deerhunter records (which ones count) is just the sort of plain opinion—a curso...

There’s a scene in Stand By Me where Chris, Teddy, Gordie and Vern are forging their way through the Castle Rock woods, dancing in step along train t...

Solo recordings and side projects can be awfully revealing where the inner workings and personal relationships of a band are concerned. Think of the t...

On Deerhunter’s 2007 track “Fluorescent Grey,” Bradford Cox repeatedly intones the line, “Patiently, patiently.” Lead guitarist Lockett Pundt has no d...

Although Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox’s oddball antics may snag all the headlines, much of the band’s signature swirling reverb can be traced back...

Hovering still and hushed in between layers of dreamy murmurings and earthly musings, this debut requires more than a single listen through. As the so...