By January 2008 Deerhoof became a quartet again with the addition of the Flying Luttenbachers / Gorge Trio / XBXRX guitarist and longtime friend Ed Rodriguez. That summer Deerhoof released the song “Fresh Born” online as sheet music only, anticipating similar experiments by Beck and Blur by several years. Fans recorded and uploaded their own versions of the song to a website before anyone outside the band had heard Deerhoof’s version. The October 2008 album Offend Maggie was praised by VH1, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Alternative Press, The Guardian, and Mojo.
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