Atlanta, Georgia art rockers
Deerhunter
followed their critically acclaimed sophomore album
Cryptograms
with 2008's even more straightforward effort
Microcastle
, a collection that stripped some of the experimentalism from their shoegaze re-imagining sound. Led by hyper-prolific principal songwriter
Bradford Cox
, the band worked quickly in the studio to semi-spontaneously construct companion album
Weird Era Continued
, a more open-ended collection of post-punk ragers, collage-styled songs, and blissful ambience to contrast the focused, no-nonsense productions on
. ~ Fred Thomas