Staying with Kranky here in North America while joining the esteemed ranks of their idols in the Breeders, Stereolab and Blonde Redhead on 4AD in the UK, Deerhunter continue to clean up their sound, or least lose the menace at the edges of such earlier songs as Cryptograms' title track. Recouping from leak losses with the addition of bonus CD Weird Era Continued, this official edition of Microcastle makes for over eighty minutes of dashed-off, unkempt pop, while interstitial specks like scrape-percussed "Calvary Scars", creaky nylon-string/thumb piano-plucked "Activa", and the "Aux Out" segue of Weird Era Cont.'s "Calvary Scars II", falling into happy-apple spaciness and distant studio backtalk, blur the line even more between the band and Atlas Sound.