Claude says:Microcastle landed in early 2009 right when you needed something nocturnal and fractured—Deerhunter's fourth album pitched between shoegaze murk and pop accessibility, all reverb-drenched vocals and songs that felt like they were dissolving mid-breath. You cycled through it that spring and summer, hitting "Never Stops," "Saved by Old Times," and "Twilight at Carbon Lake" in rotation, then moved on, but it stuck as one of those records that works best in small doses, each track a brief, beautiful glitch in the machine.