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Last we heard from Deerhunter, the Atlanta psych-rockers were putting the Internet to good use. First, a "poop journal," and then porn of the kind frontman Bradford Cox's literary hero, author Dennis Cooper, posts on his own blog all the time without catching the attention of Pitchfork's news team. Next was a harrowing true-crime drama. More recently, Cox and his colleagues have been using their blog to squeeze out new tunes like men who've just downed a pot of coffee and a six-pack of cheap beer. Splattums!

Wait, wrong bodily function. "Instead of jerking off I record a song," Cox writes. He so horny: New eight-minute Deerhunter soundscape "Unrequited" is up on the Deerhunter blog after a variety of technical difficulties, and Cox has also posted a number of ambient-oriented tracks from his Atlas Sound side project, ranging from the ethereal lullabies of "Porto" and "Stoned" to the down-pitched vocals and muffled beats of "White Tea", while the band's guitarist, Lockett Pundt, has upped his own "White Out" (the latter two are streaming below). Not as readily intelligible as Deerhunter's Cryptograms or Fluorescent Grey EP, maybe, but good shit. And it keeps Cox from going blind.

[Cryptograms and Fluorescent Grey are out now on Kranky]