The new Deerhunter album "Halcyon Digest" is streaming on NPR

Here it is. I've listened to the album now three times straight through and it is excellent. There are a few surprising instrumental choices -- things are lusher, more textured. Banjos, what sounds like melodicas, and an unexpected somewhat Bowie-esque (or is it post-Bowie-esque?) surprise in the third to last song that I won't spoil. "Halcyon Digest" is out from 4AD on September 28th.

Here's a positive review of it, on Consequence of Sound: "With some combination of glistening swells, syncopated krautrock, or girl group-isms, these songs feel like the logical step to Microcastle and Weird Era Cont."

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Bike experiment, Year Two, Week 24 Wrap-up

168 days (in SF 6 days, main bike broke for 30 days, in berkshires 3 days)

~1777.0 miles

125 bridges (wburg 103x, manhattan 5x, queensborough 6x, pulaski 7x, brooklyn 2x)
78 subways
6 crashes