I don't know crap about Deerhoof, but Macromantics is a female MC hailing from Australia that I'm pretty excited about. As a teenager she toured as the guitarist in Ben Lee's Noise Addict, but now she's turned to the world of hip-hop. She has a new album out (distributed by Kill Rock Stars, of all labels) called "Moments In Movement" and it is pretty phenomenal. The beats tend to be of the more dense, layered electronic variety that I'm not a huge fan of but her verbal flow is so effortless it's unbelievable.