New music: Deerhunter – Helicopter

Bradford Cox fuses a nihilistic outlook with a ruddy lovely tune"No one cares for me/ I keep no company/ I have minimal needs/ And now they are through with me." It's a line that pretty much sums up the frazzled sentiment running through this new track from Deerhunter's fourth album, Halcyon Digest. Over backwards-sounding drums, acoustic strums and featuring what sounds like drops of water, Helicopter is simultaneously immediate and strangely dislocated, as if recorded at the bottom of the sea....

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