Deerhoof Look To The Future On New Album

Deerhoof say they’re trying hard not to recreate the past on their new album which is due for release in January 2007.

The as yet untitled record is the follow up to 2005’s quite brilliant ‘The Runners Four’ and has mainly been produced on the road as the band tour frenetically.

John Dieterich told Billboard: "One thing we're trying to achieve with this album is to avoid something we may have done a lot in the past."

"We've always had this big sound, like it was made in large spaces. We're trying to see if its possible to avoid that crutch; if we can sound powerful but keep the sound like it's close up.”

“As far as noise goes, using distortion can be another one of those crutches. We want to make noise, but without necessarily distorting everything we touch."

As previously reported on Gigwise the band supported Radiohead recently on several UK dates and they still can’t believe according to Dieterich.

He said: "We first heard about the tour when our booking agent forwarded us an email, asking if we had certain dates in July to play for Radiohead. All I could really write back was, 'What?,' We were just so touched that they wanted us to come along."

Deerhoof will tour the new record in January but before then they have another strange project in the offing.

This autumn they will visit a small island off the coast of Maine to see a high school ballet team interpret their 2004 album ‘Milk Man’.

"As you can tell, I'm really excited about that," Dieterich said. "That's a definite first for us."