Deerhoof returns to Toronto! Their sold-out Wavelength show in 2023 was a night to remember, and this two-night stand as part of their 31st anniversary “31 Flavours” tour will be a sweet treat indeed. The Bay Area band will be playing different sets each night, with different Wavelength-curated openers each night.
For a band that seems to thrive on collapse, it’s simply amazing that this US/Japanese quartet is now celebrating their 31st year. Though Deerhoof long ago established itself as one of the greatest rock groups ever to stride the earth — and if you think that’s hyperbole, you haven’t seen them live — the furiously inventive quartet releases new albums on the schedule of a young band still hungry for its first break. Each one discovers some previously unknown combination of candy-coated hard-rock riffs and free-jazz percussive freakouts, sideways J-pop hooks and fearsome dissonance, trenchant social commentary and surrealist humor. Fronting it all is Satomi Matsuzaki’s inimitable alto, whose plainspoken calm seems strangely outside of the band’s maelstrom.
Their two-night Toronto residency will feature the best of the city’s DIY post-punk and art-rock scenes, along with some visitors from La belle province. Expect invigorating opening sets from Kingdom of Birds and Montreal’s Crabe on June 22 and Troglos and Luge on June 23.
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