Cigarettes After Sex - The Crystal Ship / Anna Karenina (7" Single) IMT5052516.1

Cigarettes After Sex - The Crystal Ship / Anna Karenina (7" Single) IMT5052516.1The song featured on the B side, "Anna Karenina," is a quintessential Cigs track, sensual, slow burning, and emotionally oversized, with lyrics so confessional they verge on too much. But it's inclusion of spoken word verses adds a striking new dimension to Greg Gonzalez's world, expanding the band's intimate palette. The A side fan favorite finally seeing release: a gorgeous cover of The Doors' "The Crystal Ship," recast in the band's signature haze.

"Misery Is a Butterfly"

as "ceaselessly fascinating and inexhaustibly replayable

The album is out March 1

Most noteworthy are the dueling lead guitars of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts

That's what they're doing in Lorain

It's a visceral listen with cinematic scope

but later realized they all fit in a little world of their own

Certified Gold

following almost two years of nonstop touring in support of 2011's SLAVE AMBIENT

Deerhoof's fan-favorite breakthrough album

rip-roaring sound

the band realized their next album had to be a meaningful snapshot of the stage they were all at in life