Fixers - Iron Deer Dream
Let’s start by dealing with the elephant in the room. The opening 30 seconds of “Iron Deer Dream” by Oxford quintet Fixers brings to mind Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, featuring synth washes, multi-track harmonies and non-sensical lyrics. Still, it’s not a bad place to start and the rest of the song – the latest taster of their forthcoming debut album, We’ll Be the Moon – gallops along nicely, the nonsense chorus becoming a big singalong by the end. For the video – premiered here exclusively – the band are charged with helping an elderly gentleman who seems to have a terrible case of Rice Krispie-itis. So they fly him to a deserted island where he then grows vegetables under his armpits, but after eating some magic jam he is miraculously cured.
“Iron Deer Dream” is due on 12 March. We’ll Be the Moon will follow on 14 May.
