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August 19th, 2015 12:56pm

Born Already Nailed To The Cross


Deerhunter “Snakeskin”

“Snakeskin” is the first Deerhunter song I could describe as funky, though it doesn’t completely work as a straight funk track. The guitar groove and the beat are definitely lifted from ‘60s and ‘70s R&B, but the bass is oddly still in the arrangement. This results in a song that sounds like someone who is trying to affect a confident strut, but is not loose and relaxed enough for it to actually signal confidence. That subtext carries over to Bradford Cox’s lyrics, which riff on the feeling of being born all wrong, and living with a conviction that you’re homely and sickly and weird, and that’s the just the natural state of things. So, basically, this is the sound of trying to feel good in your body and maybe getting about halfway to the thing you assume other people feel all the time, or landing on something else entirely.

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