Deerhunter is set to release their eighth album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? just after the holidays on January 18th, 2019. They released a new video for “Death in Midsummer” a song which reminds us that we cannot stop time and life passes by. Lyrics like, let the devil be cast out on his tail. There was a voice that called me, there was a light that burned me. Some worked the hills, some worked in factories…worked their lives away. And in time, you will see your own life fade away. There was no time to go back.
The album marks Deerhunter’s first in almost four years following 2015’s impressive Fading Frontier. Its 10 tracks, many of which were debuted live during their summer tour, were produced by the band, Ben Etter, and Grammy-winner Ben H. Allen III. Cate Le Bon, a Welsh singer-songwriter is featured on this album along with Tim Presley, aka White Fence who contributed additional lead guitar.
“I think it’s a title that is definitely at home right here,” Deerhunter leader Bradford Cox previously explained of Marfa, Texas, a ghostlike town in West Texas where parts of the album were recorded. “There is a feeling of disappearance here… The desert just has a lot of disappeared things in it. It’s where things have disappeared to.” The LP was also recorded in Los Angeles’ Seahorse Sound, as well as Maze Studios and Cox’s own attic, both located in Atlanta.
The band is reinventing their approach to microphones, the drum kit, the harpsichord, the electromechanical and synthetic sounds of keyboards. Whatever guitars are left are pure chrome, plugged straight into the mixing desk with no amplifier or vintage warmth.
Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? Tracklist
SIDE ONE:
1. Death In Midsummer (4:22)
2. No One’s Sleeping (4:26)
3. Greenpoint Gothic (2:02)
4. Element (3:00)
5. What Happens To People (4:16)
SIDE TWO:
6. Détournement (3:26)
7. Futurism (2:52)
8. Tarnung (3:08)
9. Plains (2:13)
10. Nocturne (6:25)
Deerhunter / Tour Dates
11/04 – SAO PAOLO, Balaclava Festival
11/08 – SANTIAGO, Blondie
11/10 – SANTIAGO, Fauna Primavera
11/11 – BUENOS AIRES, Personal Fest
11/13 – QUITO, La Ideal
11/14 – LIMA, Sala Raimondi
1/17 – LOS ANGELES, CA Lodge Room (with Confusing Mix of Nations)
1/21 – OSAKA, Bigcat (with Gang Gang Dance)
1/22 – NAGOYA, Electric Ladyland
1/23 – TOKYO, O-East
2/15 – NASHVILLE, TN Cannery Ballroom (with Faye Webster)
2/18 – CLEVELAND, OH Mahall’s 20 Lanes (with Mary Lattimore)
2/19 – DETROIT, MI El Club (with Mary Lattimore)
2/21 – TORONTO, ON Danforth Music Hall (with Mary Lattimore)
2/22 – MONTREAL, QC Le National (with Mary Lattimore)
2/23 – NEW HAVEN, CT College Street Music Hall (with Mary Lattimore)
2/24 – BOSTON, MA Royale (with Mary Lattimore)
2/27 – BROOKLYN, NY Brooklyn Steel (with Mary Lattimore, L’Rain)
3/01 – PHILADELPHIA, PA Union Transfer (with L’Rain)
3/02 – WASHINGTON DC 9:30 Club (with L’Rain)
3/03 – BALTIMORE, MD Ottobar
3/05 – PITTSBURGH, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre (with L’Rain)
3/06 – LOUISVILLE, KY Headliner’s Music Hall (with L’Rain)
3/08 – SAVANNAH, GA Savannah Stopover Music Festival
Photo credit: Mauricio Alvarado
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