Deerhoof - Actually, You Can LP (Olive vinyl)

Actually, You Can is a genre-abundant record that uses technicolor vibrancy and arpeggiated muscularity to offer a vital shock from capitalism's purgatorial hold. Opener "Be Unbarred, O Ye Gates of Hell" literally storms the barricades, interpolating a Handel aria, a Maya Angelou essay, and a Catholic homily in which Christ descends into inferno to release its captive souls. "These days, to be a moral person is to be a criminal," clarifies Greg Saunier of the album's countercultural embrace of liberation. "That's the spirit we were trying to express: an angelic, glamorous prison bust." That glamour comes replete with thrashing twin guitar assaults from Ed Rodriguez and John Dieterich, and Saunier's tuned-up, hyperpop-via-nu metal snare bombast. "Scarcity is Manufactured," Actually, You Can's thesis, flips "La Bamba'' into uncharted time signatures; Rodriguez and Dieterich shred in and out of unison at a high speed scrub while Saunier's heavier-than-ever kit bashes in sync with Satomi