TEE JEE! GO! FIGHT! DAN DEACON REVIEW!

Have you heard of Dan Deacon? Do you love searingly complex beats with superb instrumentation? How about something else that ends in "n?" Look no further. Dan Deacon is the peak of intelligent dance musix at the moment with EVERYTHING THAT I mentioned before, of course that only adds up to one compliment, but if you know me, that's a lot.
But you don't know me, so you shouldn't care!!! OUR LOVE WILL NEVER BE FREE!
Most recently Dan, the usually one man band from Mary-LAND released the album Bromst, and since it's spring release I haven't stopped listening to it for more than a week.
What sets Mr. Deacon apart from most other music is the extreme quirky complexity that's present in pretty much all his songs, couple that with his usage of a voice manipulator to sound like a chipmunk, and you've got something spun out of a mystical daydream.
He's also half dragon with a sprinkling of magic.
Also, during shows he pretty much hypnotizes everyone in the crowd to engage in CRAZY HIJINKS. wow I remember the quality of that video being higher.
What was I talking about?
You may have noticed from the above video that Dan gets in the crowd when he's doing a show. He's typically never up on a stage.
THE SONGS!

1: Build Voice

The album kicks off with a slow building powerhouse that features brass accompaniment and a player piano that's been digitally fed it's lines to play things that no human could.

2: Red F
Because of the jarring background noise that is largely present for the beginning of the song, this is easily my least favourite song on the album. Hearkening back to Dan's circuit-bending days, the name of the game here is distortion. The layered vocals also feature that chipmunk voice that I mentioned. It starts harsh so much so that I usually skip this track, but it finishes smooth....ly to

3:Padding Ghost
This is one of the crazy-fast eclectic rock-out sections that Dan Deacon used almost exclusively in his previous album Spiderman of the Rings. The blending of both his voice and the chipmunk creates an interesting vocal effect.

4: Snookered
Starting out peacefully enough, the song opens with xylophone and vocals that come in "waves." From there it slowly builds into a multi-layered cake of fanatical zeal inspiring insanity with periodic breaks that made me sit back and go "whoa, I can barely wrap my head around how many different types of noises are assaulting me geeze this is a long sentence to simply think in passing OH GOD WHERE ARE MY PILLS?"

5:Of the Mountains
Have you ever listened to Animal Collective and thought "Wow, these tribal rhythms are pretty neat, but they lack variety?" Enter this song like the lean figure of Bruce lee, almost like a dragon. And by more variety I mean more complex drumming and chipmunk-like screaming.

6:Surprise Stephanie
Again, a peaceful sunrise-esque opening is ended with layered vocals that comprise the scat-hearkening vocals. Seriously, it's like he took the vocals to a chop shop and if it sounded remotely like a word after tearing it apart Mr. Deacon dialled it back so it sounds like a radio station just out of the signal range. Oh, then you have the music that echoes the "lyrics." I love it so hard.

7:Wet Wings
Take an old Appalachian song and repeat it over and over and over on top of itself, and you'll have the core of wet wings. What started as my favourite song ultimate degenerated into the one that I skip consistently

8:Woof Woof
Starting with bass that reminds me of some sort of Brazilian instrument I knew the name of once, this is probably the most representative of Dan Deacon's insane-seriously-bordering-on-the-brink-of-a-psychotic-breakdown style that has been more prevalent in his previous albums. I'd tell you more but I don't want to ruin the surprise.

9:Slow with Horns/Run for your life
Does it have horns? Check. Is the first half slow? Check. Does right around the middle make you go, "Hey this is more relaxed than most of the other songs on this album... wait what's happening? OH SHIT!" as the first bits of the piano come trickling in? That's a big check.

10:Baltihorse
Xylophone and synth and chipmunk. Chopped lyrics and a fast beat with instrumentation that seems to play a little cat-and-mouse game= something that I thought I had heard before that still makes me shift in my seat until I realize that my body is making the foolish attempt to dance to something so insane.

11:Get Older
First come the manipulated tones, then comes the percussion hits, and then all of the sudden you're heading head-first down a tumultuous synth-fall that leaves you screaming until you hit the bottom of a building and collapsing tone bridge. BUT THEN YOU'RE HIT WITH THE DISTORTED LYRICS! What do you do? You ride another roller coaster ride of music courtesy of Danny D.

Overall
You're probably not going to like this one the first time all the way through. I recommend that you wait until you really need to be woken up for a bit, like a car ride or getting ready to meet prospective in-laws for the first time. Some of the song's names get lost in that mire of not really having understandable lyrics so I'll lump them all together under the label of "instrumental" though they all have their distinctive flair. The two songs that I have a problem with are Red F and Wet Wings, Red F for the beginning and Wet Wings for, probably just because it's outlandish. Overall it's a 9.75. Out of 9. Or 10. Yeah, 10.