Line #21 Music/Deepform


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5	Deepform is a [[{{shoegazing}} shoegaze]] producer from the UK, born in February 2004 and beginning music in late 2020.
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7	Their sound takes influence from a wide variety of genres, including (aside from shoegaze) post-rock, post-punk, krautrock, trip hop, dub, sound collage, noise rock, and industrial music.
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9	!! Their discography thus far:
10	* Albums
11	** ''Faust'' (2021)
12	** ''Deepform and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day'' (2022)
13	* [=EPs=]
14	** ''Aviary'' (2021)
15	** ''Glove Puppets'' (2021)
16	** ''2'' (2022)
17	** ''Common People'' (2022)
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19	!! Tropes applying to their music
20	* AllLowercaseLetters: Their releases from "Eugene" and onward.
21	* {{Bookends}}: ''Faust'' begins and ends with versions of "The Revelations", one as its own track and one as a [[DarkReprise dark reprise]] [[HiddenTrack hidden in "Mammouth"'s length]].
22	** Likewise, "Eugene" opens ''Common People'', and a distorted ambient version appears in "Alfred"'s length.
23	* BSide: Every single (other than "Extremes") has one.
24	* CoverVersion: Covers of "Jenny Ondioline" and "Tomorrow Is Already Here" by Music/{{Stereolab}}, and "Stuka" by Music/PrimalScream, are up on their [=YouTube=] channel.
25	* EpicRocking: "The Revelations", "Eventide", "Functionality" and "Gaile" are all 6 minutes long.
26	** The cover of Stereolab's "Tomorrow Is Already Here" is 8 minutes long. "Total Control", one of "Supercotton"s b-sides, also runs for 8 minutes.
27	** "Scorpio"s album version is 12 minutes long. "Control Flow" nears this at a runtime of 5:50, and "Feed the Worm" technically qualifies at 6:48 but is actually just 4 minutes 40 seconds long with a 2-minute HiddenTrack.
28	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Deepform revealed in a tumblr post that they made the drums for "Supercotton" by tapping on things around their desk and running the resulting sounds through distortion.
29	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The final three tracks on ''Faust'', and all of their [=EPs=] and albums released since.
30	* HiddenTrack:
31	** ''Faust'' features a reprise of "The Revelations" in "Mammouth"'s length.
32	** "The Riddle" from ''Glove Puppets'' has an extended one taking up much of its second half. A full 4-min version of this is present on the streaming versions of the EP, as well as a bonus track on Bandcamp.
33	** Every track on ''Common People'', excluding "Gaile", also has one of these.
34	** "Feed the Worm" features a Berlin School coda.
35	* GenreRoulette: Much of ''Faust'' is made up of post-rock and ambient/dream pop, but also features elements of slowcore ("The Revelations"), illbient and trip hop ("Roundabout", "Phantom"), more standard hip hop ("Severed Head") progressive electronic ("Uppercuts", "Extremes"), noise rock ("The Beast"), and even just noise ("Quick Sand", "Mammouth")
36	* GenreThrowback: ''Deepform and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day'''s description describes it as a "love letter" to post-punk, no wave, krautrock, and berlin school.
37	* {{Instrumentals}}: Most of their work, aside from the occasional spoken word sample.
38	* InTheStyleOf: "Vindicator" is meant to be reminiscent of post-rock artists like Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor.
39	* LongestSongGoesLast:
40	** ''Aviary'' ends with "Sand Dance" (5:10).
41	** ''Glove Puppets'' ends with "Functionality" (6:30).
42	* MinisculeRocking: "Cold in the City" and "Vignette" barely last 2 minutes.
43	* TheNotRemix: In September 2022, Deepform would redo the ''Common People'' EP with better mixing and small changes in the arrangements of some tracks.
44	* {{Sampling}}:
45	** ''Faust'' features a heavy usage of Alan Tew pieces, mainly in the more collagic tracks like "Quick Sand" and "Mammouth".
46	** The synth drones from "Fortuita in MMXXII" and "Vignette" are both from "Ready Lets Go" by Music/BoardsOfCanada.
47	* SensoryAbuse:
48	** "The Beast" features heavy distortion over the whole track.
49	** As "Eventide" reaches its end, layers of delay and reverb pile onto the song and cause it to transition into a noisy, echoing mess. The song's second section also fades into distorted noise before going back to normal.
50	* SongStyleShift: "Scorpio" starts out as a piano piece in its first minute, before shifting to Berlin School/progressive electronic, before shifting into [[Music/{{Neu}} NEU!]]-style krautrock 4 minutes in.
51	* SpokenWordInMusic:
52	** "Phantom" opens on someone explaining how to use a gun, with the ensuing gunshot leading into the song itself.
53	** "Fives and Tens" features a voice announcing a store closing in the middle of the song... said backwards and played in reverse to uncanny, alien effect.
54	** "Alfred"'s opening and interlude section features a speech followed up by a buried "[[PrecisionFStrike beat their asses]]".
55	** "Total Control" prominently samples a numbers station.
56	* SurrealMusicVideo: The music videos for "Supercotton" and "Dependency" are made from looped clips of [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSAs]] and old footage of Blackpool respectively. The latter, in particular, overlays them on top of flashing lights and colours to disorienting effect.
57	* UncommonTime:
58	** "Calvin" features multiple time signature changes, starting in 10/4 and then shifting into 14/4 (4+4+4+2), and switching between 4/4 and 5/4 in its bridge section.
59	** "Static Cloud"'s c-section/bridge switches between 5/4 and 6/4 constantly.
60	** Most of ''Deepform and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day'' is in uncommon time - "Scorpio" is in 6/4, "SPS" is in 7/4, "Mud Eater" is mostly in 10/4 with a chorus featuring 3 bars of 4/4 and a bar of 5/4, "Control Flow" is entirely in 10/4, and "Feed the Worm" features two polyrhythms constantly toggling between 4/4, 5/4, and 6/4.
61	** "Insider" features a 5/4 chorus and 6/4 verses and bridges.
62	** "Entertainment" is largely in 7/4 with brief moments in 6/4 (the transition from the intro into the main song) and 4/4 (the choruses, also the last 2 bars of the intro-transition)

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