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Oct 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Deerhunter

Deerhunter have announced a new album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, and shared its first single, “Death in Midsummer,” via a video for the song. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? is due out January 18, 2019 via 4AD. Check out the “Death in Midsummer” video below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art. The tracklist includes commentary on each song from the band. The band have also announced some new tour dates, which are below too.

Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? is the follow-up to 2015’s Fading Frontier, although in May they released the tour-only limited edition cassette The Double Dream of Spring. Deerhunter are, as always, led by Bradford Cox. The current line-up also features longtime member Lockett Pundt, founding member Moses Archuleta, Josh McKay, and Javier Morales. The album also features Cate Le Bon playing harpsichord on “Death in Midsummer” and singing on “Tarnung,” Tim Presley of White Fence playing “abstract lead guitar” on “Futurism,” Ben H. Allen III playing a “synthetic bass system” on “Plains,” and Ian Horrocks playing contrabass on “Nocturne.” Deerhunter produced the album alongside Le Bon, Allen III, and Ben Etter. Cox engineered the album with Etter and Samur Khouja, Cox, Etter, and Allen III all mixed the album. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? was recorded in various cities at several studios: Marfa Recording in Marfa, Texas, Sonic Ranch in Texas, Seahorse Sound in Los Angeles, Maze Studios in the band’s native Atlanta, and in Cox’s attic in Grant Park, Atlanta. The album is 37 minutes long.

Also read our rave 9/10 review of Fading Frontier.

Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? Tracklist:

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

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