Cryptograms (album)

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Cryptograms
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Studio album by
Deerhunter
ReleasedJanuary 29, 2007 [1]
Recorded2005
Genre
Length48:24
Label Kranky
Producer Chris Bishop
Deerhunter chronology
Turn It Up Faggot
(2005)		Cryptograms
(2007)		 Fluorescent Grey
(2007)

Cryptograms is the second album from Atlanta, Georgia-based indie rock group Deerhunter, released through Kranky on January 29, 2007 on CD and vinyl. Following the 2005 release of its first full-length album Turn It Up Faggot , Deerhunter began recording material for its next record at Rare Book Room studio in New York. This initial recording session failed, due to the physical and mental state of lead singer Bradford Cox, as well as malfunctioning equipment in the studio. The band returned to Atlanta, only giving recording a second try after encouragement from members of the band Liars. The final version of Cryptograms was recorded in two separate day-long sessions, months apart, resulting in two musically distinct parts—the first includes more ambient music while the second contains more pop music elements. Cox sang most of the record's lyrics in a stream-of-consciousness manner; they include themes of death, companionship, and Cox's experiences with his genetic disorder Marfan syndrome. Cryptograms was generally well received by critics, and several publications placed the album on their lists of the top albums of 2007.

Contents

Recording

Deerhunter first attempted to record their second album in 2005 with folk musician Samara Lubelski at Rare Book Room studios in New York. This recording session failed, due in part to the physical and mental state of lead singer Bradford Cox, who had influenza and walking pneumonia at the time. [6] The group was also working with malfunctioning equipment, including an out-of-tune piano and an uncalibrated tape recorder. [1] Cox later described the results of these sessions as sounding like "if you listen to Loveless on mushrooms, and I mean that in not a complimentary way". In an interview with Pitchfork , Cox said that the music was "on a scratched CD-R under my bed", which "nobody will ever hear". [6] These tracks were later made available, in mixtape form, on the Deerhunter blog. [7]

Following the failed session Deerhunter returned to Atlanta. The group became acquainted with punk band Liars, who encouraged them to give recording a second try. [6] For their second attempt, Deerhunter returned to the same rural Georgia studio in which they had recorded their debut album Turn It Up Faggot . [1] This time successful, the album was recorded in two parts: the first half was recorded over one day-long session, completely filling the reel of tape the band had brought with them. The last song of this recording session, "Red Ink", ends with the tape spinning off the reel. [1] The second half, recorded months later over a single day in November, begins with the song "Spring Hall Convert". During this recording session Cox had the flu, and his congestion caused his voice on the album's pop tracks to sound "really weird […] I always thought I would go back and redo them, but we never did." [8]

Cryptograms was followed four months later by a four-track extended play, Fluorescent Grey , which was recorded while Cryptograms was being mixed. [9] Cox indicated that each new track was worthy of being a single; [10] one music critic characterized the EP as being less "dreamy" than Cryptograms. [9] When Cryptograms was released on vinyl as a double album, the Fluorescent Grey tracks took up the fourth side. [1]

Music and lyrics

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"Spring Hall Convert"
The first track from Deerhunter's second recording session on Cryptograms. The song's lyrics relate to Cox's hospitalization as a teenager, due to his genetic disorder.
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Cryptograms is more "subdued and introverted" musically, according to Cox, than Deerhunter's first release Turn It Up Faggot. [8] Cox has shown disdain for that record in interviews, [6] [8] saying it "sounds like 2002—angry, post-hardcore dance punk. We were really young and angry." In contrast, Deerhunter's new album is "not the punk attitude" characteristic of Turn It Up Faggot. While Cox does not consider Cryptograms a "reaction" to its predecessor, he noted in an interview with Stylus Magazine that the group's new record "developed out of different circumstances, altogether." [8]

Deerhunter's two recording sessions produced two halves of the album with distinct musical styles. The first half of the album is more ambient in style [11] and includes four ambient instrumental tracks. [12] With the song "Providence", the band aimed to create a feeling of solitude. The idea for the song came about when, while in Providence, Rhode Island during a 2005 tour, Cox had an argument with other members of the band. Having left his bandmates to cool off, Cox "walked around Providence at dusk" feeling "totally alone", while admiring his "meditative" surroundings. [12] In the instrumental track "Red Ink", Cox and drummer Moses Archuleta worked to create an atmosphere in which the listener is dreaming he or she is dead and the experience of death feels like reality. [12]

The second part of the album, which begins with "Spring Hall Convert", contains more elements of psychedelic and pop music. [1] In an interview with L.A. Record , Archuleta remarked that the band often received letters from fans who had listened to their music while stoned. He noted the negative connotations that come with being called a "psychedelic" band, and considered the group to be "pretty clean…[and] sober" in contrast, adding, "That’s funny that that’s people’s idea of what we’re into." [13] "Spring Hall Convert" originates from a demo Cox first recorded in October 1998 when he was sixteen. [14] On the Deerhunter blog, Cox wrote of two girls he knew from his school as one day being "bathed in this golden spring light in the hallway". He described himself feeling as close to them as if they were his sisters. The same day he recorded "Spring Hall Convert" on a karaoke machine; Cox wanted the song to reflect the "acid trip" he experienced seeing his friends in this light. [12] He calls the song's drum track characteristic of his "stonedness" at the time, adding that "Hydrocodone was [also] a factor." [14] The lyrics of the track reflect Cox's experiences with his genetic disorder Marfan syndrome. As a teenager he underwent "extensive" surgeries for his chest, ribs, and back. The lyrics reflect the experience of someone moving in and out of consciousness during chemotherapy, while missing their friends and memories of a normal life. [12] The original lyrics of the song written in 1998 were not changed when the track was re-recorded for Cryptograms. [14]

In "Octet", Cox sings "I was the corpse that spiraled out into phantom hallways". The imagery of this song was inspired by the cover art of the Grove paperback edition of the Dennis Cooper novel Closer. [12] [15] In the album’s closing track, "Heatherwood", Cox tells of the house he was born in, where he believes he will return to die. [12] "Strange Lights" is a song about "companionship, and facing uncertainty with someone". The song was written by guitarist Lockett Pundt, and is based on a dream he had in which himself, Cox, and a third person "walked into the sun together, knowing it was going to kill us", as described by Cox. [12] The idea for the song "Lake Somerset" came from a trip Cox took to the zoo while hung over, during which he saw a turtle eating carrots. "It was cool and adorable…It had this cute neck and was very small. It chewed slowly." When video producer James Sumner approached the band to make a music video for "Lake Somerset", Cox told Sumner he "wanted a video of a turtle eating a piece of pizza." Several days later, Sumner posted his video to YouTube; it consists of a man in a turtle suit eating pizza for four straight minutes. [16] Cox has said that the band's greatest achievement with Cryptograms was "evoking a feeling of someone who's woken up after being strung out one too many nights…It's the feeling of being lovesick and very spaced-out." [8]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [17]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [18]
The Boston Phoenix Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [19]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [11]
Paste Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 8.9/10 [4]
PopMatters 6/10 [20]
Spin Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [21]
Stylus Magazine B [22]
Tiny Mix Tapes 4.5/5 [23]

Cryptograms received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [17]

Pitchfork awarded the album the publication's "Best New Music" accolade, and later placed it fourteenth on a list of the fifty best albums of 2007. [4] [24] Pitchfork staff writer Marc Hogan wrote that Cryptograms "is alternately murky...ethereal, amorphous and incisive", calling the second half of the album "vastly more accessible" than the first. [4] Mike Diver of Drowned in Sound found the album's two halves "absolutely coherent; the sequencing allows the listener space to breathe at the most opportune moments, and its leaps from ambiance into adrenaline-soaked enthusiasm...are worthy of celebration." [11] Tiny Mix Tapes 's Paul Haney enjoyed the "psych-crazed pop" found in the second half of Cryptograms, citing "Spring Hall Convert", "Heatherwood", and "Strange Lights" as exemplary tracks. [23] Nick Sylvester of The Boston Phoenix considered the first half of the album to be irregular in style and quality, but found that this gave the transition between its two halves "a black-and-white-to-Technicolor moment (or TV to HDTV, if you prefer): "Spring Hall Convert" combines Deerhunter's come-up and come-down into the most uplifting rock song I've heard in a while, an explosion of gritty Velvet downstrums and swirling vocal harmonies." [19]

The first half of Cryptograms was called "the problem child" by Kevin Elliott of Stylus Magazine , characterizing this child as having been "medicated at a young age to subdue constant anxiety and the fear of death, overly mired in thoughts of regret and anguish, overwhelmed with ideas and insight." [22] Mike Schiller of PopMatters found that because the second half of Cryptograms "fixate[s] on examples of Deerhunter's songcraft, which is actually somewhat average", the use of delay effects "mask[s] whatever deficiencies in musicianship Deerhunter might choose to hide". He believes the potential seen in the first half of the album is lost in the second. [20] AllMusic writer Marisa Brown felt the band's ambient music is used to the extent that it becomes "commonplace, despite its avant-garde leanings." The writer found that when Deerhunter "aims for the provocative and the esoteric", the band often "overreach[es] and end[s] up hitting something much more ordinary, predictably "experimental"…in a genre that's supposed to be anything but." [18] Dom Sinacola of Cokemachineglow stated that all of Cryptograms "sounds, as a whole, too coherently cold", the tracks "Providence" and "Heatherwood" being exceptions. [25]

The album placed high on lists of the best albums of 2007 of several publications, earning spots in the top twenty with Tiny Mix Tapes, The Boston Phoenix and Drowned in Sound. [26] [27] [28] An article by Pitchfork gave musicians the opportunity to publicize their favorite records from 2007. Cryptograms received praise from Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear, ranking the album as his third favorite of 2007. Klaxons's James Righton and Black Lips's Cole Alexander placed the album on their own top tens as well.

Track listing

Music written by Moses Archuleta, Bradford Cox, Josh Fauver, Colin Mee and Lockett Pundt, except where noted. [29] Lyrics by Bradford Cox. [12]

  1. "Intro"  – 2:50
  2. "Cryptograms"  – 4:17
  3. "White Ink"  – 4:59
  4. "Lake Somerset"  – 3:49
  5. "Providence"  – 4:08
  6. "Octet"  – 7:50
  7. "Red Ink"  – 3:40
  8. "Spring Hall Convert"  – 4:29
  9. "Strange Lights"  – 3:38 (music by Lockett Pundt)
  10. "Hazel St."  – 3:48
  11. "Tape Hiss Orchid"  – 1:12
  12. "Heatherwood"  – 3:37

Personnel

Deerhunter

Production

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