Hear new Deerhunter single ‘Plains’; Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? released next Friday
DEERHUNTER
Release New Single ‘Plains’ Today
Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
New Album Out January 18th 2019
With eighth studio album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? released next Friday, Atlanta’s Deerhunter have shared a new song, ‘Plains’, today.
Inspired by James Dean who spent the last summer of his life filming ‘Giant’ in Marfa, Texas in 1955, ‘Plains’ follows the singles ‘Element’ and ‘Death in Midsummer’.
Listen to ‘Plains’ HERE
Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? is released digitally and on brutalist grey vinyl and CD on 18th January 2019.
“One of today’s great American bands… Some of Deerhunter’s prettiest songs to date.” Uncut 8/10
“Their poppiest, most direct album yet.” Q ****
“Solid-gold tunes.” MOJO ****
“This is how you turn pop into art.” NME ****
Loud And Quiet 8/10 | Record Collector **** | Clash 9/10 | DIY ****
Deerhunter’s eighth LP Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared forgets the questions and makes up unrelated answers. It gets up, walks around, it records itself in several strategic geographic points across North America. It comes home, restructures itself and goes back to bed to avoid the bad news.
Deerhunter have made a science fiction album about the present. Is it needed right now? Is it relevant? Perhaps only to a small audience. DADA was a reaction to the horrors of war. Punk was a reaction to the slow and vacant 70’s. Hip Hop was a liberated musical culture that challenged the notions presented wholesale about the African-American experience. What is popular music today a reaction to?
DEERHUNTER TOUR DATES:
17 January – LOS ANGELES, Lodge Room [TICKETS] !
21 January – OSAKA, Bigcat *
22 January – NAGOYA, Electric Ladyland *
23 January – TOKYO, O-East *
15 February – NASHVILLE, TN, Cannery Ballroom [TICKETS] #
16 February – CHICAGO, IL, Pitchfork Midwinter 2019 [TICKETS]
17 February – CHICAGO, IL, Lincoln Hall [TICKETS]
18 February – CLEVELAND, OH, Mahalls 20 Lanes [TICKETS] %
19 February – DETROIT, MI, El Club [TICKETS] %
21 February – TORONTO, ON, Danforth Music Hall [TICKETS] %
22 February – MONTREAL, QC, Le National [TICKETS] %
23 February – NEW HAVEN, CT, College Street Music Hall [TICKETS] %
24 February – BOSTON, MA, Royale [TICKETS] %
27 February – BROOKLYN, NY, Brooklyn Steel [TICKETS] % &
1 March – PHILADELPHA, PA, Union Transfer [TICKETS] &
2 March – WASHINGTON, DC, 9:30 Club [TICKETS] &
3 March – BALTIMORE, MD, Ottobar [TICKETS]
5 March – PITTSBURGH, PA, Mr. Small’s Theatre [TICKETS] &
6 March – LOUISVILLE, KY, Headliner’s Music Hall [TICKETS] &
8 March – SAVANNAH, GA, Savannah Stopover Music Festival
25-27 April – MARFA, TX, Marfa Myths Festival
3-5 May – ATLANTA, GA, Shaky Knees Festival
27 May – BARCELONA, Primavera Sound opening party [TICKETS]
3 June – COPENHAGEN, Den Grå Hal [TICKETS]
4 June – OSLO, Rockefeller [TICKETS]
! with Confusing Mix of Nations
* with Gang Gang Dance & Ex:Re
# with Faye Webster
% with Mary Lattimore
& with L’Rain
Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Deerhunter
4AD 0089 – 18 January 2016
PRE-ORDER
SIDE ONE:
1. Death In Midsummer (4:22)
Caption of photograph found in book: “Revolution In The Streets of St. Petersburg, July 1917.” The photo shows figures of people running away from piles of bodies.
2. No One’s Sleeping (4:26)
On 16 June, 2016 Labor Party MP Helen Joanne Cox died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall by Thomas Mair, a mentally ill man with ties to a Neo-Nazi organization. He shouted “Britain first” as he carried out the attack.
3. Greenpoint Gothic (2:02)
An architectural interlude for synthesizer and drums.
4. Element (3:00)
Elegy for Ecology (a landscape done in toxic watercolors)
5. What Happens To People (4:16)
Eulogy for “Emotions”
SIDE TWO:
6. Détournement (3:26)
A postcard from the slipstream
7. Futurism (2:52)
Nostalgia is toxic.
8. Tarnung (3:08)
A walk through Europe in the rain
9. Plains (2:13)
James Dean spent the Summer of 1955 in Marfa, Texas filming ‘Giant,’ before his death on September 30th.
10. Nocturne (6:25)
Live stream from the afterlife.
Total: 37 minutes
Produced by Cate LeBon, Ben H. Allen III, Ben Etter, and Deerhunter
Engineered by Ben Etter, Samur Khouja, and Bradford Cox
Mixed by Ben Etter, Ben H. Allen III, and Bradford Cox
Recorded at:
Marfa Recording, Marfa Tx
Sonic Ranch, Tx
Seahorse Sound, Los Angeles
Maze Studios, Atlanta
Attic of B. Cox, Grant Park, Atlanta
Deerhunter are: Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Moses Archuleta, Josh McKay, and Javier Morales
Cate LeBon plays harpsichord on ‘Death In Midsummer’ and sings on ‘Tarnung’
Tim Presley plays abstract lead guitar on ‘Futurism’
Ben H. Allen III plays a synthetic bass system on ‘Plains’
Ian Horrocks plays contrabass on ‘Nocturne’
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