History Music / Deerhoof

After their first three abrasive, noisy and experimental albums, Fisk departed from the band, and guitarist John Dietrich stepped into his place. With this three piece lineup the band released Reveille, which received critical acclaim, before Chris Cohen of The Curtains joined to play guitar for their next two albums, the rawer styled Apple 'O and their concept album Milk Man, before switching places with Matsuzaki to take up bass on his last, more pop oriented album with the band, The Runners Four. After this Deerhoof continued as the same trio they had been on Reveille, releasing one album, Friend Opportunity, which was their biggest commercial and critical success up to that point. They were then joined by guitarist Ed Rodriguez.

Their first album with Rodriguez was 2008's Offend Maggie, before 2011's Deerhoof vs Evil. Their most recent album, released in 2023, was called Miracle-Level.

Their first album with Rodriguez was 2008's Offend Maggie, before 2011's Deerhoof vs Evil. Their most recent album, released in 2017, was called Mountain Moves.

* NamesTheSame: Three of their albums include a song called "Flower". The only thing the three songs have in common is their name.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: They're experimental indie noise pop/rock with a dash of avant garde.
** It seemed throughout the 2010s that they'd gotten into a comfortable garage rock groove. Enter ''Future Teenage Cave Artists'', an unforgivingly dirty album of badly-recorded drums, guitar parts recorded independently of each other, and a Mozart cover.

* NamesTheSame: Three of their albums include a song called "Flower". They're all different.

Their first album with Rodriguez was 2008's Offend Maggie, before 2011's Deerhoof vs Evil. Their most recent album, released in 2012, was called Breakup Song.

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Deerhoof are a band from San Francisco... Defining them beyond that is kind of hard, to say the least. They began in the mid 90s when a bassist going by the name of Rob Fisk recruited drummer Greg Saunier, a classically trained musician with two degrees in music. Searching for a vocalist they recruited Japanese film student Satomi Matsuzaki, whom had no musical experience whatsoever upon joining the band, despite which [[http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/01/catching-up-with-deerhoof.html Saunier has described her as being "a master composer and master songwriter"]].

After their first three albums Fisk departed the band, and guitarist John Dietrich stepped into his place. With this three piece line up the band the band released Reveille, which received a notable amount of acclaim, before Chris Cohen of The Curtains joined to play guitar for their next two albums, the popular Apple 'O and their concept album Milk Man, before switching places with Matsuzaki to take up bass on his last album with the band, The Runners Four. After this Deerhoof continued as the same trio they had been on Reveille, releasing one album, Friend Opportunity, before adding yet another guitarist to their line up in the form of Ed Rodriguez.

Their first album with Rodriguez was 2008's Offend Maggie, a decidedly rocky album, before 2011's unfancied Deerhoof vs Evil. Recently Deerhoof released what is surely one of their finest works, Breakup Song.

Deerhoof continue to tour constantly, and release new material at an astonishing rate. 11 albums in 15 years says as much.