With eighth studio album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? released next Friday, Atlanta’s Deerhunter have shared a new song, ‘Plains’ today.

Listen to 'Plains' here.

Inspired by James Dean who spent the last summer of his life filming ‘Giant’ in Marfa, Texas in 1955, ‘Plains’ follows singles ‘Element’ and ‘Death in Midsummer’.  Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? is released digitally, on brutalist grey LP and CD on 18th January 2019. 

I was listening to the trains.  I was up all night.  And something glistened in the strange blood-diffused light.  My friend was missing.  And I was ghost.  I was flame.  I was bright.  I was listening to the trains.  I was up all night.  “Oh, James.  You’ve got no reason to stay in these plains.”  I was racing against time with this friend of mine.  Collapsing just before we reach the end of the line.  He was lifted.  Diamond straight.  Straight was cold.  Cold was black.  And black was glistening.  All the night - the sound of trains.  “Oh, James.  You’ve got no reason to stay in these plains.”  These plains are barren and hateful terrain.  And what remains is the sound of trains.

Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? will be released on 18th January 2019.
You can pre-order via 4AD here.
You can pre-order on all platforms here.

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?

“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 ****

January
17th - Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA, US ! [TICKETS]
21st - Bigcat, Osaka, Japan * [TICKETS]
22nd - Electric Ladyland, Nagoya, Japan * [TICKETS]
23rd - O-East, Tokyo, Japan * [TICKETS]

February
15th - Cannery Ballroom, Nashville, TN, US # [TICKETS]
16th - Art Institute Of Chicago (Modern Wing), Chicago, IL, US [TICKETS]
17th - Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL, US
18th - Mahalls 20 Lanes, Lakewood, OH, US % [TICKETS]
19th - El Club, Detroit, MI, US % [TICKETS]
21st - Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada % [TICKETS]
22nd - Le National, Montreal, QC, Canada % [TICKETS]
23th - College Street Music Hall, New Haven, CT, US % [TICKETS]
24th - Royale, Boston, MA, US % [TICKETS]
27th - Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY, US % & [TICKETS]

March
1st - Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA, US & [TICKETS]
2nd - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, US & [TICKETS]
3rd - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD, US & [TICKETS]
5th - Mr. Small's Theatre, Millvale, PA, US & [TICKETS]
6th - Headliner's Music Hall, Louisville, KY, US & [TICKETS]
8th - Savannah Stopover Music Festival, Savannah, GA, US [TICKETS]

April
25th-27th - Marfa Myths Festival, Marfa, TX, US

May
3rd-5th - Shaky Knees Festival, Atlanta, GA, US
27th - Primavera Opening Party, Barcelona, Spain

June
3rd - Den Grå Hal, Copenhagen, Denmark
4th - Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway

! w/ Confusing Mix of Nations
* w/ Gang Gang Dance & Ex:Re
# w/ Faye Webster
% w/ Mary Lattimore
& w/ L’Rain