This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
CMU Approved
Approved: The Deer Tracks – Lazarus
By Marc Samuels | Published on Monday 25 February 2013
‘Lazarus’, the second single from new Deer Tracks album ‘The Archer Trilogy Part 3’, continues where its predecessor ‘W’ left off.
And it’s delightful, with subtle glitches, sweeping strings, hands-in-the-air rave synths and clattering percussion that could be anything from gunshots to lightening bolts hitting the top of a glacier. Imbued with a sense of playfulness, it’s topped with an effortlessly emotive vocal from Elin Lindfors which reminds you of the melodic sensibility at the heart of the group’s adventures.
Whilst some might lament the absence of guitars and the move to a more electronic sound, redolent of a less morose and more elfin version of The Knife (as opposed to the more organic Sigur Rós-remixed-by-Múm-in-a-blizzard tracks of debut album ‘Aurora’), all the best groups evolve their sound as they go on a sonic, and no doubt physical and metaphorical, journey as their career develops.
‘The Archer Trilogy Part 3’ is out now, and the balloon-tastic video for ‘Lazarus’ is available on YouTube for your viewing pleasure here:
