For a band that has always danced on the edge of chaos, Deerhoof remains astonishingly alive after 31 years. The US/Japanese quartet continues to create with the restless energy of a debut act, blending sugar-rush guitar riffs, sideways J-pop melodies, percussive mayhem, and bursts of noise into something unmistakably their own. Frontwoman Satomi Matsuzaki’s cool, clear voice cuts through the storm, playful, strange, and deeply human. Both joyful and uneasy, their music feels like a collision of optimism and anarchy, proof that Deerhoof’s defiant creativity only grows sharper with time.