Halycon Digest is one of my favorite albums of all time. I could listen to it over and over again and never get sick of it. The way the songs fade together, the way the mood changes throughout the album... it's pure bliss. It's genius. It expresses a deep feeling I have that I cannot put into words
what makes this song so hypnotic and amazing is that the second half instrumental section has a 5 measure bass line mixed in with patterns of 4, and 4 measure intervals - the clashing of those rhythmic elements makes it more interesting
that's definitely the best part of the song. But I'd argue it's also the repetition of those simple licks and the increasing intensity of the instrumental piece (drums, distortion, effects and changing licks) that makes it reach towards a climax.
I think this song is trying to capture that feeling, once when you are old you are always trying recapture that feeling of complete freedom you once felt when you were young.
This song represents everything that is good about young kids picking up guitars and doing whatever they want. From 3:07 on "Desire Lines" is simply absolute joy. Completely, utterly wonderful. Long live Deerhunter.
I like how they are teaching experimental/ambient/shoegaze fans to appreciate pop writing, and how they're teaching everyone else to listen to more complicated music. It's great when bands have fans divided into tribes for each album, just cause each one is so great but so unique too.
So sad to hear the news. Never got to see them live, but I’ve always loved the Pitchfork clip of the 11-minute jam of “Nothing Ever Happened”; Josh just kept hammering the bass. So young at 39. So sorry. 😥
That is easily my fav deerhunter vid ever. Really shows how important he was to the band’s tight rhythm. Wasn’t the same once he left the band. Seemed like a great dude too. He will be missed.
listened to this song while i'm stoned is out of this world experience especially when the guitar interval and the bassline as well as the drums became one throughout the end of this song..shoegaze masterpiece
So it happened to you too, huh? It just autoplayed The Rat from The Walkmen, and then right this afterwards. I immediately fell in love, but forgot the name of the second song. I didn't know how to display your history of songs, and after finding out, I was so happy I could listen to Desire Lines again. It's been like a month now or something, and it's part of all my playlists.
I remember these dudes finished up their show in my hometown by just walking off stage with all the amps cranked and the all the guitars and mics sitting right next to them blasting feedback. The house soundguy was NOT in on the joke.
Great listening to this immediately after ‘Helicopter/he would have laughed’ live. All cranked up to 11, and just getting lost in the intricacies combined with such searing repetitive distortion. Love it. And thank you Josh.
Love the entire song not to mention the album, but what I love the most is that guitar solo at the end that makes you realize that your life after all isn't so bad
As a guitar player that strives to play like Shawn Lane, I gotta say that this shoe gazer style of music just sounds beautiful to me. The guitar playing is simple but definitely kicks fucking alien ass all over my universe. Bravo Deerhunter!!! Bravo!!!
Yeah, but, c'mon...the singing is positively, undeniably God-awful. The musicianship is really good, good guitars, everything else is fab. But the singing? Krikey! That's always been my biggest beef with so many alternative bands...slack singing.
Great hypnotic song. The reverse bass-guitar in the middle cut this song in 2, just like a Lynch movie. Thank you also for having taken the best of Brian Eno needles in the camel's eye ... That makes avery very good song.
There was so much great music exploding from these pockets all over the map ( mainly here in the states) Small tribes of artist , film makers , musicians, poets and drug addicts were coming together and building indie scenes and their towns. This was right before the "Hipster" era with the long beards and skinny jeans... So many great indie bands were popping up everywhere with damn good material.... Damn I wish I could go back to 2002....
Yes, I do listen to this song, too many times, you young people , how is it you are making music I wanted to make back in the 80's. I think we were, right Tom? We smoked for inspiration, we wanted this sound.
Deerhunters Desire Lines, sparks memories of Florida vacations, early 80’s. Like seeing The Main Drag for the first time after a year from the previous vacations view.
I got to see them open for NIN circa ~2007, and they made such an impression on me. When Halcyon Digest came out, they truly became one of my faves. Beautiful music, I can't get enough.
Oh, when you were young and your excitement showed But as time goes by is it outgrown? Is that the way things go? Forever reaching for the gold Forever fading black and comes up cold Walking free, oh, come with me, oh Far away, oh, everyday, oh Walking free, oh, come with me, oh Far away, oh, everyday, oh When you were young, you never knew which way you'd go What once was grace now undertows Well everyday do what you can, and if you let them turn you 'round Whatever goes up must come down Walking free, oh, come with me, oh Far away, oh, everyday, oh Walking free, oh, come with me, oh Far away, oh, everyday, oh
That outtro could last all month and I'd still be entranced. Amazing, a shoe gazing masterpiece
This is the way
Fuck'n Ey Right Skippy...
Thanks
I'm autistic adhd so all day about right and I've had a couple Slithers of molly crystal 👌🏻😋
That seems to be the consensus
the first half of this song is preparation for flight
Yeah, you're right. And the other part you ride.
Pre much
the second part is everything you experience after getting a blow to the head
@Shiloh Janowick Yes indeed
It's going to take us to another universe!
Rest In Peace Josh. Your bass playing here was fucking awesome. Walking free whoah. Far away whoah.
I could listen to this thousands of times
rightttt it's beautiful
I did! It's great :)
What's about the other songs of this band? Not so good?
me too,mostly for the outro
I have.
The outro is pure heaven. Strap yourself in for the journey
Halycon Digest is one of my favorite albums of all time. I could listen to it over and over again and never get sick of it. The way the songs fade together, the way the mood changes throughout the album... it's pure bliss. It's genius. It expresses a deep feeling I have that I cannot put into words
Very underrated album
I just listened to it again last night.. ITS JUST AS GOOD AS THE FIRST TIME. Do yourself a favour
My favorite song
what makes this song so hypnotic and amazing is that the second half instrumental section has a 5 measure bass line mixed in with patterns of 4, and 4 measure intervals - the clashing of those rhythmic elements makes it more interesting
that's definitely the best part of the song. But I'd argue it's also the repetition of those simple licks and the increasing intensity of the instrumental piece (drums, distortion, effects and changing licks) that makes it reach towards a climax.
Guitar lick comes in with 6/8 too
Pretty much, it's like one of those loops that you don't know how you got there, and seem to have no beginning and no end.
Tyler Wood very reminiscent of No. 13 Baby
literally have no idea what you just said (excuse the ignorant) But in simpler terms I think you mean this song is awesome
An absolute stunning piece of hypnotic trance
Totally agree!
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I think this song is trying to capture that feeling, once when you are old you are always trying recapture that feeling of
complete freedom you once felt when you were young.
Kavindu Wijetunge love how you described it !
Or "I used to be 17," as Sharon Van Etten puts it
Eloquently put doll. This song, much like running arms spread in a circle on a hilltop, only dizzy with wonder.
i want to hug everyone in this band
+Quasar Ulas Separately or all at once; doesn't matter
Bass player is gone now :·(
Bradford and Deerhunter are seriously the most tragically underrated musicians........but not by me, i rate the fuck of them.
out
sorry did that comment fall on the side of contrived? heaven forbid people speak what they feel?
Adam S Taylor Toopoable was saying you missed the "out" in your sentence friend.
oh good call...
They're not really underrated, they're quite a critically acclaimed band actually.
This song represents everything that is good about young kids picking up guitars and doing whatever they want. From 3:07 on "Desire Lines" is simply absolute joy. Completely, utterly wonderful. Long live Deerhunter.
One of my favorite songs ever.
I like how they are teaching experimental/ambient/shoegaze fans to appreciate pop writing, and how they're teaching everyone else to listen to more complicated music. It's great when bands have fans divided into tribes for each album, just cause each one is so great but so unique too.
Outstanding version. All of it. And that bass playing is just hypnotic! RIP Josh Fauver.
Haha I listen to this song everyday too. Mostly when I'm driving to work. Reminds me to be free. :)
Haha 4 years later still listen to this song everyday. :)
@@matthewspringer1369 It's timeless, take care my friend :)
5 years later still listening to this song. :)
or the song is too good for that moment, or going to work sucks, in my case, work sucks lol
@@matthewspringer1369 Are you still listening? 😊
So sad to hear the news. Never got to see them live, but I’ve always loved the Pitchfork clip of the 11-minute jam of “Nothing Ever Happened”; Josh just kept hammering the bass. So young at 39. So sorry. 😥
That is easily my fav deerhunter vid ever. Really shows how important he was to the band’s tight rhythm. Wasn’t the same once he left the band. Seemed like a great dude too. He will be missed.
What a song. What a performance. What a band.
listened to this song while i'm stoned is out of this world experience especially when the guitar interval and the bassline as well as the drums became one throughout the end of this song..shoegaze masterpiece
agbugger dude shut the fuck up
@agbugger I care.
Good space junk
Bass player going all in at the end, love it. Such a great outro
Those Major Third licks are simple but a killer! Such taste, feeling and precision
probably the best song on halcyon digest...which is quite an accomplishment
Thanks to Spotify for helping me discover this awesome band
x2
Same here, He Would Have Laughed appeared on one of my daily mixes and I was astonished
So it happened to you too, huh?
It just autoplayed The Rat from The Walkmen, and then right this afterwards.
I immediately fell in love, but forgot the name of the second song.
I didn't know how to display your history of songs, and after finding out, I was so happy I could listen to Desire Lines again.
It's been like a month now or something, and it's part of all my playlists.
4AD - is a good label. A like also from them The Breeders , Pixies, etc...
@@voronow3 ah so a good history of music behind them
Psychedelic masterpiece!
I could listen to the end jam for hours.
me tooo
I remember these dudes finished up their show in my hometown by just walking off stage with all the amps cranked and the all the guitars and mics sitting right next to them blasting feedback. The house soundguy was NOT in on the joke.
sooo good. i live for music like this.
sameeeee here
i live for corruption
sameeeee here
The shoegazer band Lush also had a song called "Desire Lines" that was equally hypnotic.
yes lush and their track desire lines is amazing. can't wait to see them live in l.a. saturday night. my fav band of the 90's.
yep
Legit thought it was gonna be a cover. Instead, I found a new addition to my eternal playlist.
Their best song by far
I’ve replayed this a million times
Great listening to this immediately after ‘Helicopter/he would have laughed’ live. All cranked up to 11, and just getting lost in the intricacies combined with such searing repetitive distortion. Love it. And thank you Josh.
I listened to this song for the first time like a week ago and I instantly fell in love!
this song is so simple yet it is very very very good! quite hypnotizing
no matter who the band, when 3 guitars and a drummer click, magic can happen..
There's definitely some shoegazing going on here
3:02 let's take a trip
let the dreams begin
fuckin hell
Seriously love this end jam.
coming back to this gem regularly still 5 years later, Rest In Peace Josh. He was the amazing bassist in this video.
best deerhunter song ... wish Lockett had more time as lead singer
Love the entire song not to mention the album, but what I love the most is that guitar solo at the end that makes you realize that your life after all isn't so bad
Dan ganas de que la parte instrumental no acabe nunca. Toda la canción es hipnótica
Hugo Covelo como si hubiera sido escrita para no acabar nunca dando más y más combinaciones... lo mismo ocurre con Nothing ever happened.
@@sashamoroder4983 Totalmente de acuerdo!!
Exacto! Toda la canción es buenísima, hipnótica, pero sobre todo el instrumental final es fabuloso, como para que no acabe nunca
I listen to this EVERYDAY :D the best of the best....
Josh Fauver and ooh the basslines on this gem!! - RIP buddy :/
It feels like the end of the song is never going to stop and that's cool with me
Halcyon Digest is definitely in my top 20 albums of all time! I listen to every style of music! Cool to see this song live!
It's my 1000th time watching this video. The song makes me feel very good. Psycho-Shoegaze at their best.
Still love this song. What a pure and beautiful expression of child like wonder and the process of ageing. A timeless piece of art
absolutely stunning. I could listen to the outro on loop for hours
As a guitar player that strives to play like Shawn Lane, I gotta say that this shoe gazer style of music just sounds beautiful to me. The guitar playing is simple but definitely kicks fucking alien ass all over my universe. Bravo Deerhunter!!! Bravo!!!
Lockett looks like Michael Cera in the 4th season of Arrested Development
you ever even been on a plane you piece of s&%t!?
He's OS
Brilliant. Someone looks like someone else.
I wish Locket sang on more DH tunes :/
I don't.
RIP Josh Fauver :(
Wtf no!! You’re lying, tell me you’re lying!!!
CGC 007 they’re not lying 😔🙏🏽
@@Swaggamin1 he shredded too hard from skateboarding.
@@ZacTBH that was Justin Bosworth not Josh
Imagine being one of the 33 people (currently) who don't think this is any good. Just f'ing imagine.
31 right now, at least the number decreases.
Yeah, but, c'mon...the singing is positively, undeniably God-awful. The musicianship is really good, good guitars, everything else is fab. But the singing? Krikey! That's always been my biggest beef with so many alternative bands...slack singing.
@@CameronUKSA Someone needs to invest in some hearing aids it seems.
It truly is lazy.
Now I'm in the future and there are currently 44 people who don't think this is any good. And yeah I know, pretty fcked up.
No.13 baby... Those who know, know
Great hypnotic song. The reverse bass-guitar in the middle cut this song in 2, just like a Lynch movie. Thank you also for having taken the best of Brian Eno needles in the camel's eye ... That makes avery very good song.
wow this song takes me somewhere else...I can't believe they can do that live the same as in the album...perfection...I want to see them live
i listen to this EVERYDAY. and i'll never get tired of it
Merveilleux et somptueux.
There was so much great music exploding from these pockets all over the map ( mainly here in the states) Small tribes of artist , film makers , musicians, poets and drug addicts were coming together and building indie scenes and their towns. This was right before the "Hipster" era with the long beards and skinny jeans... So many great indie bands were popping up everywhere with damn good material.... Damn I wish I could go back to 2002....
Yes, I do listen to this song, too many times, you young people , how is it you are making music I wanted to make back in the 80's. I think we were, right Tom? We smoked for inspiration, we wanted this sound.
Fantastic song. The beginning always reminds me of one of Arcade Fire's first singles, Rebellion.
Or Amor Fati from Washed out
Ride and My bloody Valentine did not die in vain! Soft shoegaze - I like it!
Swervedriver's still carrying the torch w quality output.
@@peterclarke6191 tell them to write some decent tunes..great sound but mediocre songwriting.
Musicians are empath’s. “All those feelings deep in your soul that you’ve never expressed into words “ well here they are in musical form
Truly. Awesome. Could possibly be my favorite band ever.🚀
This song is magical. Massive
I am in Shoegaze Heaven. A superb song. They remind me of Lush.
Undertow! I played that cassette out and certainly until nothing was legible on either side of it!
Best live music 🖤
that was unbelievable... I can't even begin to tell you how much that song means to me... d e e r h u n t e r .......loooove you
When dude throws in vocals drenched in effects then loops it at 5:15ish for the rest of the song, that’s it for me. I forget where I am after that.
The ending is hypnotic!
This is pretty much sonic perfection
Amazing! I just had an eargasm. Must go and see Deerhunter!!!
this is so fucking good, my girl needs to like this or its over.
It doesn’t get much better than this...sublime on so many levels 🙌🏻🙌🏻
nah i think they are just all in the zone trying not to fuck up haha these dudes are such good musicians this live version is ridiculously good
Music that moves mountains and souls
Sounds great live too. One of my favorite songs in the past 5 years.
Great trip song 🎶
Deerhunters Desire Lines, sparks memories of Florida vacations, early 80’s. Like seeing The Main Drag for the first time after a year from the previous vacations view.
Wow rip Josh I can't say i'm surprised people who make songs like these don't usually live to long
I got to see them open for NIN circa ~2007, and they made such an impression on me. When Halcyon Digest came out, they truly became one of my faves. Beautiful music, I can't get enough.
Oh, when you were young and your excitement showed
But as time goes by is it outgrown?
Is that the way things go? Forever reaching for the gold
Forever fading black and comes up cold
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
When you were young, you never knew which way you'd go
What once was grace now undertows
Well everyday do what you can, and if you let them turn you 'round
Whatever goes up must come down
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
Best outro on the planet 🙌🏻
Man, the bass player has to keep his mates together, he does, he does.
Bass player is in Heaven now : (
A Master Piece !
WOW. That was flawless. This is real talent.
Can't get it out of my head. Ever.
Great song! Deerhunter is one of the greatest bands i ever heard!
A beautiful song, incredible musicians
My favourite band of the last ten years.
Fuckin Bass player, love you, dude , you make the change happen. The Bridge , that is.
great song. great band
Años escuchando esta canción ❤ me encanta saludos a todos desde chile 🇨🇱
Love the bass on this track!
I really really love this version.
another great song from them... it never fails
stunning and majestic sound
Hearing live Deerhunter makes my love for them grow ten-fold.
Fantastic song! What an album 👌
love this song, takes me back.
Dude...that Fallon performance was amazing!
Absolutely stunning