Who are
Deerhunter, and why did it take
Underneathica so long to turn me on to them? How did kids so very young get a sound so steeped in the post-punk art-squall of
This Heat,
Swell Maps,
Chrome and
Wire? How could a group of unseemly 12-year-olds come up with such brilliant songs as
Cryptograms,
Tree Spies and
Tech School? Here I am, old enough to be their great-great-great grandfather who can't grow a moustache and yet these boys with a collective age of 42 are writing better music than
Jesus Christ. It warms my dark twisted heart to hear them kicking up an aural dust storm instead of taking their musical cues from the
Garden State soundtrack, like most tykes of their generation. Let's hope they run for President someday.
