Deerhunter is also releasing an album in May, and it should be...interesting

Deerhunter's next album, Monomania, will be released in less than a couple months, the band announced today.

Similarly to the National's new album (which I discussed yesterday), Deerhunter's will come out this May. But completely different from the National is what Deerhunter had to say about it. A band press release described it as:

"Mystery disc of NOCTURNAL GARAGE. rat tapes / NEW FORMAT
is avant garde(?) but only in context not form (original intent of avant garde (1912-59) / before logic: FOG MACHINE / LEATHER / NEON"

Um, this should be pretty interesting. I have pretty much the opposite reaction to this message, compared to the National's borderline-sellout-sounding statement from yesterday. Will Monomania be too weird?

Halcyon Digest, Deerhunter's previous album, was amazing. But it was also pretty accessible.

Like the National's previous album -- High Violet -- Halcyon Digest came out in 2010. If 2013 can live up to some of the releases we saw in 2010, this should be a really solid year for new music.