When I first heard of Dan Deacon he had just released "Spider-Man of the Rings". As I look back at it now, I can see that was released in 2007 (really?) and so it's been about eight years since I last wrote about Dan Deacon. I listened to his album that came before this, "America" (from 2012), but apparently didn't write about it.
From what I remember there was a lot of electronic experimentation on "Spider-Man of the Rings" and that doesn't seem to come out as much on "Gliss Riffer" or at least not right away. On the first song this is more of a traditional distorted electronic rock with elements of pop and even female vocals accompanying him at times. There are drum machines that offer up dancing beats and it kind of reminds me at times (on the second song at least) of "The Safety Dance".
But as this goes on it can shift from that rock sound of, say, Modest Mouse to what I remember in that far out way from Dan Deacon. But I think the moral of the story here for me is that there were two albums released between "Spider-Man of the Rings" and "Gliss Riffer" so I should probably familiarize myself with both of them and maybe even the ones that came before "Spider-Man".
I don't remember much about "America" and am not even sure if I heard the one that came before that ("Bromst") but I will go back for them. All I know is that I liked "Spider-Man of the Rings" and this seems like a bit of a jump from there (Again, missing pieces for me and all) but I still enjoy the hell out of it.
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