Photo by Satoru Eguchi

Leading up to 20 studio efforts across their three-decade-spanning career, it’s an awe how anything we hear from Deerhoof still has an uncanny way of landing in the right place at the right time in this world with their avant-rock explorations. Those who’ve been wistful over coming around on the one year anniversary since Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee was collectively acclaimed but the notion of a cultural shift toward music more adventurous in the underground has not been fully capitalized on with a cultural shift, then “Immigrant Songs”, the latest highlight from the San Francisco noisemakers’ forthcoming Noble and Godlike In Ruin is dependable hope that others are remain tireless in putting in the work. As the album’s closer, the seven minute stretch doesn’t feel like it wastes any seconds in filling in its space. Melodies switch seamlessly between a bossa nova guitar breeze to an elastically electrified indie rock riff and beat, only for an unhinged feedback crash-out of ear-blistering noise and shrill screams to carry it out. “Kindness is all / I needed from you / But you think / We’re in your house / You are mistaken!,” exclaims Satomi Matsuzaki. We are all visitors in this land, and Deerhoof loudly remind us of that.

Deerhoof’s Noble and Godlike In Ruin will be released April 25th on Joyful Noise Recordings.