Bradford Cox – Guitar, Clavinet, Vocals
Josh McKay – Bass, Omni Synth
Javier Morales – Piano, Celeste
Moses Archuleta – Drums
Emilio Zef China – Violin
Composed by Bradford Cox
Produced and mixed by Dana Wachs
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Engineered by Nolan Theis
Additional Engineering by Andy Plovnick
Recorded at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY on 12th September 2019

Following hints over the weekend, Deerhunter have now announced details of their next album.
'Fading Frontier' is the indie rock group's seventh album and follows on from 2013's 'Monomania'. It will be released on October 16 via 4AD.
The Atlanta band, consisting of Bradford Cox, Moses Archuleta, Frankie Broyles, Josh McKay and Lockett Pundt, have also shared the lead track from the LP in the form of 'Snakeskin'. Watch the video for that song below.
Deerhunter will also play shows in the UK and Ireland during October and November, including dates in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, Leeds, Brighton and Glasgow. Tickets for those gigs go on sale on Friday (August 21).
Cox recently claimed during his set with side-project Atlas Sound at NXNE festival that the new Deerhunter album "sounds like INXS".

Deerhunter's new album Halcyon Digest is coming September 28 from 4AD. As previously reported, the band announced the album's existence to the world by putting up a poster on their website and asking fans to print it out and post it in places where the unsuspecting public could find it.

离开地心引力最快的捷径是忧郁。
不知道，多愁善感是不是一种容易让人聚焦的方式。 我们自以为理解世界的方式比人复杂，我们自以为别人看不见我们明白的视野，我们自以为拥抱的价值如此出世，我们自以为云淡风轻是韬光养晦，我们自以为忧郁皱眉是领悟世界的捷径。
不晓得，有多少人和我一样，听到Deerhunter的「广场恐惧症」(Agoraphobia)时，心头为之一震。 原来，是的，我长久以来一直渴望这样的音乐节奏，四四拍，不徐不急地缓缓进前，歌词里的文字，看似无病呻吟，却又如此精准地在心头上画一刀。 幽幽地无法自制，反复按下repeat，我们都需要一种寂语，在垂眼昏厥时的安稳。
去年被Deerhunter第二张专辑《Cryptograms》那股病态魅力纠缠许久的黑洞体验，仍记忆犹新，才一晃眼，这群以主唱Bradford Cox为首的亚特兰大五人组，一次推出两张新作，且若性子较急，年中已可透过管道完整听见。 原先对Bradford Cox的猜测与想象，也藉由去年底一场Deerhunter演出，幻化为真实。不顾纽约法条，他在台上抽烟，吞云吐雾的同时对台下观众说：「我好想念妈妈！」那景况听来滑稽，但不知怎的，人在现场，竟感到有点鼻酸。即便在独立摇滚阵营，Bradford Cox仍是一名怪到骨子里的咖，然他的痴与狂，才华与自卑，正使Deerhunter处处展露着用力拉扯后的真实痕迹，他们的音乐，自然也勾人魂魄。
强烈的乐团性格使然，对他们感冒的人不少，然喜欢他们的人，却也慢慢增加。选在My Bloody Valentine正式复合，西岸的No Age也带来成熟新作的2008年发表《Cryptograms》的接续作品，与其说曲风同样深受Shoegazing影响的Deerhunter想证明什么，不如说他们寻求的是一种乐曲上的对话，无论对前辈的示意，或与同侪的应和。
《Microcastle》与《Cryptograms》不同之处，是流畅的圆融感。这么说，不代表《Cryptograms》首尾不一，而是它前后半部的差异性极为显著，毕竟乐团只花了两天录制，并将两天的成果按照时间顺序铺排下来，未将它们并置在一起。因此，听着《Cryptograms》便可得出前半部以长篇演奏曲为主，后半部以传统曲势为主的印象，而那确实也是乐团经由两个Session试图呈现的歧异风格。
反观《Microcastle》，由于花了一周录制，团员间的沟通与概念发想的时间都更充足，专辑没有一个鲜明的分隔线，呈现出圆形循环的一致感。Bradford Cox苍白贫血的嗓子仍是Deerhunter最迷离的声音表情之一，但此回吉他手Lockett Pundt也分担了不少歌唱任务，贝斯手Josh Fauver也主理了好几首歌（包括全辑最醒目的必杀曲目，犹如商借了Sonic Youth最流畅吉他旋律线的〈Nothing Ever Happened〉）。换言之，《Microcastle》更像一份团队作业，并非仅是Bradford Cox单打独斗的成品。
虽然调子更动听了，Deerhunter并未在编曲上妥协。突然的中断、定格，乃至失焦与摇晃，随后急速换档爬上天梯，并吓你一跳。从多数定义来看，《Microcastle》无法归类在传统摇滚的范畴，那荡漾流转的Kranky厂牌式环境声景、走在车库庞克与艺术庞克间的羊肠小道，仍旧布满了瓦砾，只是Deerhunter选择穿上一双更松软的鞋子，脚步声，自然也轻柔许多。
伴随专辑《Weird Era Cont.》不只是填充功能而已，是一张完成度极高、拥有自主生命力的个体。更具水感，诡异与失重，事实上其中几首强歌，甚至胜过《Microcastle》的弱歌，譬如长十分钟的结尾曲〈Calvary Scars II/Aux Out〉，呼应的是《Microcastle》里的〈Calvary Scars〉，将一分半的原作延长为无边际的迷幻奥德赛，是神游太虚的必备曲目。而这种一鱼二吃的手法，自然教人想起Radiohead两个版本的〈Morning Bell〉（分别出现于《Kid A》与《Amnesiac》）。
连同年初的Side-Project乐团Atlas Sound，Bradford Cox已于2008年推出三张质量上乘的作品，产量惊人。却也不免让人担心，这种狂烧蜡烛式的旺盛创作力，会否让他原已不良的病体，更显憔悴，终至成为下一名摇滚殉道者？

How do you describe an album out of time, concerned with the disappearance of culture, of humanity, of nature, of logic and emotion? Why make this album in an era when attention spans have been reduced to next to nothing, and the tactile grains of making music have been further reduced to algorithms and projected playlist placement. Why wake up in the morning? Why hasn’t everything already disappeared?
Deerhunter’s eighth LP 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.
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.
What they spend their time doing instead 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.
The result is as thrilling, haunting, and unpredictable as anything in their roughly 15-year career.
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?