Press

  • The Best Songs of 2024

    NPR Music (2024)

    “Magdalena Abrego’s guitar solo at the climax of this beautiful and brooding indie rock song gurgles with molten life over crackling shoegaze riffs. And in the midst of all of that crunchy catharsis lies Mali Obomsawin’s meditation on the monuments that we build upon the graves of those we’ve chosen to forget.”

  • Best New Artists of 2024

    Stereogum (2024)

    “…Obomsawin translates the First Nations experience into piercing, surreal reflections carried across the bombast like siren songs.”

  • Deerlady Distills The Rage

    New Haven Independent (2024)

    "...each of Deerlady’s songs were sharp and engrossing, dark and vital, rolling together a stew of emotions and ending up with a resilient, bruised hope."

  • Kim Gordon raps her shopping list — it's hot and terrifying

    NPR Music (2024)

    "Headbang while you weep."

  • The Contenders, Vol. 3: Our running list of the year's best songs

    NPR Music: All Songs Considered (2024)

  • Indie Fuzz-Rock Duo Deerlady's Shoegaze With Bite

    WNYC: Soundcheck (2024)

  • Band To Watch: Deerlady

    Stereogum (2024)

    "Greatest Hits is a tough album to pin down...moody, folky, neo-gothic...dotted with signifiers of shoegaze and slowcore [and] guitar eruptions, which frequently emerge from moments of stark minimalism."

  • Interview with Native Indie Rockband: Deerlady

    Native Max Magazine (2024)

    "...the new Native band to follow."

  • Roots Round-Up

    Songlines Magazine (2024)

    "...a shimmering landscape of song, soft and heartfelt, but simmering underneath."

  • Episode 96: Deerlady

    Songwriters on Process Podcast (2024)

    "Favorite Album of the Year"

  • 12 New Songs Out Today

    Brooklyn Vegan (2023)

    "Haunting"