ACTUALLY, YOU CAN (OLIVE GREEN VINYL)

Over eighteen boundless albums as experimental as they are pop, Deerhoof has
continuously quested for radical sounds and daring storytelling. 2020's Future Teenage
Cave Artists explored fairytale visions of post-apocalypse, welding intrinsic melodies with
absurdist digital recording methods. Its sequel Love-Lore, a live covers medley, channeled
futurist mid-century artists-Parliament, Sun Ra and Stockhausen, to name a handful- into
a patchwork love letter to the anti-authoritarian expressions that inspire the band.
Galvanized by the challenge of unifying many styles of music, Deerhoof landed on their
next record's concept: baroque gone DIY.
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. "In the
United States now, to be a moral person means to be a criminal, whether it has to do with
a general strike or forming a union or Black Lives Matter protests," clarifies Saunier of the
album's countercultural embrace of liberation. "If you follow the rules, you're guilty. That's
the spirit we were trying to express: an angelic prison bust, a glamorous prison bust." It's a
condemnation of America's mundanity, replacing violence with the heartfelt power of
mutualism.