Snapshots: Deerhunter @ Emo's

Emo's outdoors was packed last night for a double bill of noise rock featuring Matador's Times New Viking and Bradford Cox's Deerhunter. Both bands have garnered tons of praise in '08, and Deerhunter's latest album, Microcastle, is already appearing on a slew of year-end lists. While we were a bit disappointed in TNV's seeming boredom (we'd really hoped their set would include something breaking, or at the very least, a bit more energy), their sound was true-to-form: loud, noisy and rockin', despite absolutely no low end. Cox & Co. were fantastic, blowing through their set with minimal banter. Three hollow body guitars on stage can be a really, really bad thing, but in this case, it was just what the doctor ordered. The five piece sounded wonderful, the highlights (for us anyway) being extended, rather jammy versions of "Octet" and "Nothing Ever Happened."

They were supported by a Los Angeles-based femme duo playing some sort of electro-irony.

All photos by Austinist contributing photographer Nash Cook.

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