To ensure a healthy appetite for my birthday pub
lunch yesterday, Mrs S and I first took a long walk
on a wild and windy stretch of coastal
heath, where the birdlife was plentiful, if
sometimes a little distant. Not distant in
any way, however, were these deer. As we passed a thicket of gorse bushes
there they were, not ten feet away, looking straight at us. When I'm out
walking locally, in a quiet lane or by the river, I occasionally spook a
little fawn, which will run like the wind into the distance. Not these
guys though. We were on their manor and they stood their ground and stared us out, as if daring us to blink first. I
very gently took a couple of shots and then
we moved on and left the beautiful creatures
to graze in peace.
It's a tenuous link I know, but I'm
nevertheless excited to learn that
Deerhunter have a new LP, 'Monomania', due
for release in a couple of weeks time. The
album is the follow up to 2010's brilliant
'Halcyon Digest', which featured one of the
very best tracks of that year, 'He Would
Have Laughed'.
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