On his latest effort, Dan Deacon starts fleshing his heavily electronic and classically influenced compositions with some top-notch orchestral instrumentation.

Dan Deacon isn't the only indie artist to attempt to sum up the condition of America in recent years but his personal take is as valid as any. Inspired in part by Cormac McCarthy's The Road, the Baltimore composer's eighth album offers a musical analysis of the USA based on the notion that it is badly broken but still fixable

America (Dan Deacon album). America is a studio album by American electronic musician Dan Deacon, released August 27, 2012 on Domino Records. The album cover is a photo of Lake Placid. America was recorded using both electronic sounds and live recordings. An anechoic chamber was built in Baltimore to record the orchestral track "Rail

America is the debut studio album by America, released in 1971. It was initially released without "A Horse with No Name", which was released as a single in late 1971. When "A Horse with No Name" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track. The album went to No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in the United States and stayed there for five weeks

The music was inspired by his love of cross-country travel; the lyrics explore his frustration with Uncle Sam. Since releasing 2009's Bromst, Deacon has composed pieces for percussion ensembles and chamber orchestras and scored Francis Ford Coppola's ghost movie Twixt. A refined, classical aesthetic and electronic kookiness mesh wonderfully on America.

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Instead of responding to the American economic crisis by turning out explicitly political songs – the approach of Bruce Springsteen and the forthcoming album by Ry Cooder – Deacon has co-opted the surges of the dancefloor, of sped-up motorik beats, of punkoid experimental music to soundtrack his view of the prairies and canyons and his sense of bleary hope. This is not a difficult album to get; certainly, the first half is an easy listen. Connoisseurs of percussive pummelling (or fans of Japanese drum-orgyists Boredoms) will find plenty here to unleash their endorphins

America is both a progression and a departure for Deacon: an album rife with danceable party music, but also a deeply political gesture. Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM). 84. America is an album in two halves, once again separate but together, a side of individual tracks and a four-song suite that inform each other even as they generate tension by nature of their disparity.

It’s Dan Deacon’s America, and you’re just living in it. Sources Dan Deacon salutes the flag, aurally speaking.

Good morning! NPR has an early stream of electro-indie musician Dan Deacon’s spacey, excellent new album, America, if you want to check it out. (It is, in their words, an absolute adventure.