Deerhunter has announced their eighth full-length Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, the album arrives on June 18th via 4AD. Along with the news the band has shared a new video for lead-track “Death In Midsummer.” Deerhunter will also hit the road, for a run of dates, starting November 4th in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

From the opening harpsichord and piano figures of “Death in Midsummer”, it is impossible to tell where the record came from. Is No One’s Sleeping an outtake of an aborted Kinks recording session in 1977 Berlin with Eno producing? No. That is nostalgia. If there is one thing Deerhunter are making clear it is that they have exhausted themselves with that toxic concept.

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.

Deerhunter
Tour Dates

SUN 11/04 SAO PAOLO, Balaclava Festival
THU 11/08 SANTIAGO, Blondie
SAT 11/10 SANTIAGO, Fauna Primavera
SUN 11/11 BUENOS AIRES, Personal Fest
TUE 11/13 QUITO, La Ideal
WED 11/14 LIMA, Sala Raimondi
THU 1/17 LOS ANGELES, CA Lodge Room (with Confusing Mix of Nations)
MON 1/21 OSAKA, Bigcat (with Gang Gang Dance)
TUE 1/22 NAGOYA, Electric Ladyland
WED 1/23 TOKYO, O-East
FRI 2/15 NASHVILLE, TN Cannery Ballroom (with Faye Webster)
MON 2/18 CLEVELAND, OH Mahall’s 20 Lanes (with Mary Lattimore)
TUE 2/19 DETROIT, MI El Club (with Mary Lattimore)
THU 2/21 TORONTO, ON Danforth Music Hall (with Mary Lattimore)
FRI 2/22 MONTREAL, QC Le National (with Mary Lattimore)
SAT 2/23 NEW HAVEN, CT College Street Music Hall (with Mary Lattimore)
SUN 2/24 BOSTON, MA Royale (with Mary Lattimore)
WED 2/27 BROOKLYN, NY Brooklyn Steel (with Mary Lattimore, L’Rain)
FRI 3/01 PHILADELPHIA, PA Union Transfer (with L’Rain)
SAT 3/02 WASHINGTON DC 9:30 Club (with L’Rain)
SUN 3/03 BALTIMORE, MD Ottobar
TUE 3/05 PITTSBURGH, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre (with L’Rain)
WED 3/06 LOUISVILLE, KY Headliner’s Music Hall (with L’Rain)
FRI 3/08 SAVANNAH, GA Savannah Stopover Music Festival

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”