Miracle-Level

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Miracle-Level
Deerhoof - Miracle-Level.jpg
Studio album by
Deerhoof
ReleasedMarch 31, 2023 (2023-03-31)
RecordedJune 25 to July 3, 2022
StudioNo Fun Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genre Experimental rock, indie rock
Length35:51
LanguageJapanese
Label Joyful Noise Recordings
Deerhoof chronology
Actually, You Can
(2021)		Miracle-Level
(2023)

Miracle-Level is the eighteenth studio album by American experimental rock band Deerhoof. The album has received positive reviews from critics [1] [2] and is their first in 19 studio releases to be recorded in a studio with outside technical guidance as well as their first with lyrics exclusively sung in Japanese. [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.6/10 [1]
Metacritic 83/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Loud and Quiet 7/10 [6]
Pitchfork 7.9/10 [7]
PopMatters 8/10 [8]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Spill Magazine7/10 [10]
Under the Radar 8/10 [11]

Editors at AnyDecentMusic? rated this album a 7.6 out of 10, based on seven reviews. [1] Miracle-Level received positive reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. It has a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on eight reviews. [2]

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Heather Phares writing that "nineteen albums into their career, Deerhoof still find new ways to express themselves" and that this album "is about seizing the opportunity to come together to create music and change—a message that, like their other 2020s work, is just as eternal as it is timely". [4] Writing for the Associated Press, Jim Pollock compares this release to "a visit to an unfamiliar city", as "it feels anarchic and unstructured until the listener has some time to acclimate to its rules and norms". [3] Siobhán Kane calls this release "delicate, trippy, grungy and wildly unpredictable" and rated it 4 out of 5 stars in The Irish Times . [5] In Loud and Quiet , Jake Crossland scored this release a 7 out of 10 for "big-picture innovation, which just about filters down into the songs' smaller details". [6]

Writing for Pitchfork, Marc Hogan gave Miracle-Level a 7.9 out of 10, writing that it "celebrates the heady euphoria that can result when skill and craft meet with serendipity and happy accidents, like a long-running indie band teaming up with the former owner of Lil Bub and hustling out a full album in two weeks' studio time". [7] Jay Honeycomb of PopMatters rated it a 8 out of 10 for being "as vitalizing as it is soft-hearted". [8] The Skinny 's Joe Creely considers this release "an album where brevity belies what an enlivening and broad world it contains" and gave it 4 out of 5 stars. [9] In The Spill Magazine, Joseph Mastel rated it a 7 out of 10, writing that the lyrics are weak and cautioning that "mainstream music listeners and audiences will likely not enjoy Miracle-Level that much", but he finds that "it is good to try new things" as the band does on this album. [10] In Under the Radar , Kyle Kersey rates Miracle-Level an 8 out of 10, summing up his review that it is "a celebration of the human spirit, one that offers optimism and wonder in the face of pessimism and hopelessness. It's a little miracle in and of itself". [11]

Editors at AllMusic included this on their list of favorite alternative and indie albums of 2023. [12]

Track listing

All songs written by Deerhoof

  1. "Sit Down, Let Me Tell You a Story." – 2:06
  2. "My Lovely Cat!" – 4:25
  3. "The Poignant Melody" – 2:27
  4. "Everybody, Marvel" – 4:09
  5. "Jet‐Black Double‐Shield" – 1:54
  6. "Miracle‐Level" – 3:14
  7. "And the Moon Laughs" – 2:41
  8. "The Little Maker" – 3:14
  9. "Phase‐Out All Remaining Non‐Miracles by 2028" – 3:23
  10. "Momentary Art of Soul!" – 5:07
  11. "Wedding, March, Flower" – 3:11

The vinyl edition includes a second disc with the track "Demonhooftration".

Personnel

Deerhoof

Additional personnel

See also

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