Fluorescent Grey EP

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Fluorescent Grey EP
Fluorescent Grey EP cover
EP by Deerhunter
Released May 8, 2007
Recorded July 2006 at Radium Studios, Athens, Georgia
Genre Shoegaze
Length 16:19
Label Kranky krank107
Producer Chris Bishop
Professional reviews
Deerhunter chronology
Cryptograms
(2007)		 Fluorescent Grey EP
(2007)		 Microcastle
(2008)
Alternate cover
Vinyl Cover
Vinyl Cover

The Fluorescent Grey EP is an EP by Deerhunter released by Kranky in May, 2007. The release garnered much critical praise, including a "Best New Music" tag by Pitchfork Media.[1] The photography and typography of the CD are done by lead singer Bradford Cox. The front cover features a seventh grade photo of guitarist Lockett Pundt.[2] The video for "Strange Lights" is also on the EP as a CD-ROM extra. The EP was later released as a vinyl double LP with their second album Cryptograms.

Contents

[edit] Music and lyrics

Unlike Cryptograms, the Fluorescent Grey EP does not have any ambient passages. Instead, the EP is considered to be more like "four singles."[3]

The songs on the EP share common themes with Cryptograms, in their subject matter of death and of Bradford Cox’s adolescent experiences. On "Fluorescent Grey", the song’s focus is "panic attacks, lust, and existential dread." Cox examines his sexuality with relation to dying in the lyrics, "why do I dream so often of his body, when his body will decay? His flesh will be fluorescent grey." These thematic concerns are also in "Dr. Glass", where Cox utilises the contrast of love and death; "all the couples kissing…the corpses rotting."

The music for "Like New" was written by Lockett Pundt. Cox contributed the lyrics to the song. He has explained that the song "might be about waking up one day after a long period of depression and finding the world somehow more bearable and kind of ‘new’ and exciting again." This can be identified in the lyrics "I saw the city lanes, mirrored in falling rain, seems like new."

In "Wash Off", Cox sings about how a "kid sold me fake acid in the parking lot of my high school and then told me something about how I wasn't open minded enough to 'let it work' or 'let it do its thing'." [4] This is evidenced in the lyrics, "and in the parking lot, of my high school, cheap acid, soft focus."

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Bradford Cox.

  1. "Fluorescent Grey" - 5:02
  2. "Dr. Glass" - 3:14
  3. "Like New" - 2:13
  4. "Wash Off" - 5:46 (download)
  • "Strange Lights" (Video) - 3:38

[edit] Personnel

  • Bradford Cox - guitar, vocals, bass drum, gong, tapes, keys, piano
  • Moses Archuleta - drums, percussion
  • Joshua Fauver - bass
  • Colin Mee - guitar, tapes, percussion
  • Lockett Pundt - guitars
  • Nicolas Vernhes - mixing
  • Jennifer Munson - mastering

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pitchfork Media. Best New Music. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
  2. ^ Insomnia Post: More Ephemera & Another New Song, "Stoned". Deerhunter Blog. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
  3. ^ Interview: Deerhunter. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2007-07-17.
  4. ^ Cryptograms LP + Fluorescent Grey EP Lyrics. Deerhunter Blog. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.