Listen to an Entire Lotus Plaza Set
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Stacie Jaye Meyer
No offense to Lotus Plaza, who are awesome, but listening to this show from the comfort of a warm office and somewhat comfortable chair seems like the ideal way to take in all the music. Not that this wasn’t a mind-melting set in real life, but the first ten minutes consist primarily of an extended guitar drone and every time we try to lay down in the club things get a little weird. The rest of the set is significantly poppier, like if The Cure went a little new age, but nevertheless, we’re still going with the concept that this is for listening to at home alone when it is way too cold to do anything else except fiddle with the volume knob on the stereo until you can catch all the details. Lotus Plaza are linking up with Nudge for a brief tour in November, dates after the jump.
Download: Lotus Plaza Live in Atlanta (via The Deerhunter Blog)
Freeload: Lotus Plaza, “Whiteout”
- story THE FADER
Hey Deerhunter, do you know what it’s called when you release multiple albums under different names every year? Market saturation. But considering how poor the market is, we’re going to let it slide. It also helps that the band has a track record for churning out quality music — from Cryptograms to Microcastle to Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel and everything else in between, the members of Deerhunter have been killing us with different iterations of ghostlike vocals and feather-soft guitar for a few years now. That’s probably a good thing for Deerhunterer Lockett Pundt, whose Lotus Plaza album is another trip down sunny naptime lane. The Lotus Plaza album will be out March 23rd on Kranky, and just because we forgot to post it a couple weeks ago, there is spacey new video for Deerhunter’s “White Lie” after the jump.
Download: Lotus Plaza, “Whiteout”
