Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Monomania// Deerhunter on Jimmy Fallon

Deerhunter recently performed their new song Monomania on Jimmy Fallon's show. Lead singer Bradford Cox was wearing a shaggy black wig and a leopard print shirt. His fingers and mouth were bleeding. The other members of the band were wearing similarly patterned shirts. At the end of the performance, Cox leaves the stage and is follwed by cameras as he walks out of the studio and down the hallway to the elevator. Since the performance video is no longer up on Jimmy Fallon's site, I feel the need to describe it. The performance felt cinematic; seeing Bradford Cox's strange idea of a rock and roll character spitting out the song and then wandering off down the hall.
The song's name Monomania (also the title of their upcoming album) apparently means, according to wiki... "In 19th century psychiatry, monomania was a form of partial insanity conceived as single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind." This makes me think that Monomania, like their previous album Halcyon Digest, has taken an idea or story to keep in mind while making the record. Monomania comes out today.

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