Available on vinyl for the first time in over 15 years! The Runners Four is Deerhoof’s double-LP concept album about friends banding together as honorable outlaws in a corrupt world, deciding what to save in an apocalypse, passing secret messages of warning and hope from a remade future back to a soon-to-be-destroyed present. Abundant with lyrical allusions to the flood, where cargo hold claustrophobia inside meets a watery chaos outside, it was written and self-produced by Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich, Chris Cohen and Greg Saunier while they holed up in a rented Oakland rehearsal room for the winter months 2004-5.
Released: October 2023
Cat: JNR436LPC1
Label: Joyful Noise Recordings
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Tracklist
LP 1:
Side A
1. Chatterboxes
2. Twin Killers
3. Running Thoughts
4. Vivid Cheek Love Song
5. O'Malley, Former Underdog
6. Odyssey
Side B
1. Wrong Time Capsule
2. Spirit Ditties of No Tone
3. Scream Team
4. You Can See
LP 2:
Side A
1. Midnight Bicycle Mystery
2. After Me the Deluge
3. Siriustar
4. Lemon & Little Lemon
5. Lightning Rod, Run
Side B
1. Bone-Dry
2. News From a Bird
3. Spy on You
4. You're Our Two
5. RRRRRRRight
Side A
1. Chatterboxes
2. Twin Killers
3. Running Thoughts
4. Vivid Cheek Love Song
5. O'Malley, Former Underdog
6. Odyssey
Side B
1. Wrong Time Capsule
2. Spirit Ditties of No Tone
3. Scream Team
4. You Can See
LP 2:
Side A
1. Midnight Bicycle Mystery
2. After Me the Deluge
3. Siriustar
4. Lemon & Little Lemon
5. Lightning Rod, Run
Side B
1. Bone-Dry
2. News From a Bird
3. Spy on You
4. You're Our Two
5. RRRRRRRight