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Deafheaven - "Brought to the Water" (audio)
For all of the light that lingers in Deafheaven's music, malevolence takes on a more prominent role in "Brought to the Water".
20 Aug 2015
Music
The Artists of the Year: 2013 Edition
It was a year of thrilling comebacks from legends like My Bloody Valentine and David Bowie as well the launch of major new talents like Lorde and Kacey Musgraves. These artists had the biggest impact on the shape of music in 2013.
26 Dec 2013
Music
Edging Toward the Mainstream: Extreme Music in 2013
By breaking previous genre constraints, Deafheaven and its peers have created a new template, with strangeness no longer the selling the point for extreme music.
Robert Rubsam
15 Dec 2013
Music
Touché Amoré: Is Survived By
Far from "bowing their heads and leaving out the back", the Los Angeles-based post-hardcore/screamo outfit Touché Amoré is doubling down on its clean guitar/screamed vocal contrast, and successfully so, at that.
26 Nov 2013
Music
On Wanting to Dream: An Interview with Deafheaven
PopMatters talks with lead screamer George Clarke of Deafheaven about his band's creative process, his writing influences, and the simultaneous allure and darkness of the pursuit of wealth in the Bay Area.
08 Jul 2013
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Russian Circles + Deafheaven + Enemies: 28 April 2012 - Dublin
The dynamos of instrumental disorder – Russian Circles, debut in Dublin. Possessing the power to run rings around their instrumental contemporaries, tonight Russian Circles push their foreboding sound onward with impressive style.
15 May 2012
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