Auto-Pain (Deluxe)＜限定盤＞

大好評だった2020年作が音源追加で大幅パワーアップ!

2020年ドロップの『AUTO-PAIN』でキャリア屈指の緻密さを手に入れたシカゴポストパンクことDEEPER。その出来栄えを補完するかのように様々な音源を追加したデラックス盤が降臨!

"THE KNIFE"に顕著なDIIV、BEACH FOSSILSライクの切ない旋律とポストパンク由来のトリッキーさが合わさって前面に出たオリジナル収録曲12曲は勿論、UKの若手で華々しく活躍するダンスアクトなWORKING MEN'S CLUB、NINJA TUNE傘下のBIG DADAと契約した大型新人雑食バンドPVA、同郷でエクスペリメンタルポップを標榜するSSW NNAMDIといった現在インディシーンで名を広げているアーティストを呼びリミックス!全員DEEPERの曲をマイワールドに染め上げています。さらには2021年3月シカゴで行われたライブの模様も収録!音源以上にタイトさが浮き彫りになる熱演は、バンドが一丸となって成長している証。いつの日か生で体感したくなること間違い無し!

まだ音源を手に入れて無い方はこの機会に、既に持っている方も強烈な音を浴びれるリミックス音源、グングンと迫るライブ音源の為にもう1枚いかがでしょうか!?

Following two years after their eponymous debut, Auto-Pain marks a tonal shift into darker and sparser territory for Chicago post-punks Deeper. The jagged, anxious, but still organic feel that marked their first effort has given way to a harsher, almost mechanical approach that utilizes open space and repetition as a means to work through rather than stave off suffering. Initially conceived as an interconnected concept album, singer/guitarist Nic Gohl claims that he took inspiration from Aldous Huxleys dystopian classic Brave New World, in which a fictional government-issued drug called soma was used to numb all unwanted emotions. Gohl derived the idea of Auto-Pain as its antithesis, a system by which to amplify and fully experience and subsequently process emotions. Although the conceptual elements of the album were ultimately abandoned, it dictated a new way of working for the band, who stripped down their already lean sound to its wiry minimum. Songs like This Heat and V.M.C. have plenty of potent energy, relying on glassy guitar riffs and occasional stabs of percussion and synths as punctuation and color. An unintended emotional arc of Auto-Pain is the part-time presence of founding guitarist Michael Clawson, whose mental health struggles caused him to leave the band halfway through recording and ultimately take his own life. While Gohl, bassist Drew McBride, and drummer Shiraz Bhatti are careful to point out that the material was completely finished before Clawsons passing, its themes of pain, struggle, and depression seemed even more desperate after his passing. In spite of its subject matter and the trauma Deeper endured in its making, Auto-Pain lacks the standout cuts and live immediacy of its predecessor. Their debuts ferocity stands in contrast to this albums detached anguish, though there is still plenty of craft and pathos among its 12 tracks. ~ Timothy Monger