home-recording Breakup Song

In 2012 Deerhoof also began home-recording the record Breakup Song . The band said the album was a response to the tradition of breakup songs, which it felt included too many sad songs and too few empowering ones. After a long final mixing session at Saunier’s apartment, Matsuzaki took the front cover photo of a garbage truck in the early morning. The Polyvinyl Records release was also released on Joyful Noise Recordings in “flexi-book” format, allowing listeners to flip from song to song as if each track were a page in a storybook. Deerhoof hero Simeon of Silver Apples remixed “Mario’s Flaming Whiskers III”. Revealing some of Deerhoof’s working methods and group chemistry, a rare full-band interview, with former MTV VJ John Norris , appeared in the fall 2012 Interview magazine.