Deerhoof – München, Gasteig HP8

Over eighteen groundbreaking albums, as experimental as they are poppy, Deerhoof has continually sought out daring storytelling and radical sounds, creating a new common language of revolution. The critically acclaimed and highly prescient Future Teenage Cave Artists of 2020 explored fairytale visions of the post-apocalypse, fusing vast melodies with absurd digital recording methods. The immediate follow-up, "Love-Lore," a medley of live covers, channeled mid-century futurist artists - Parliament, Sun Ra and Stockhausen, to name a few - in a patchwork love letter to the anti-authoritarian forms of expression that inspire the band.

Deerhoof's latest album, "Tactical You Can," is a genre-rich album that offers a decisive jolt from the purgatorial reign of capitalism with Technicolor vibrancy and arpeggiated muscularity. The band says: "Think of all the beauty, positivity and love that is considered ugly, negative and hateful by the self-appointed guardians of 'common sense'." We would hardly destroy society if we abolished its colonial economy and prisons, as well as gender roles and aesthetics. We would make it!"