On 12th September this year, Deerhunter of Atlanta, Georgia spent a night in New York recording ‘Timebends’, a 12-minute opus that is released today.

Listen to ‘Timebends’ here.

A separate entity to their eighth studio album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, ‘Timebends’ is a partly improvised stream-of-consciousness outpouring.  Recorded live direct to tape and in one take with minimal overdubs and mastered using a completely analogue signal chain, ‘Timebends’ recalls Deerhunter’s early avant-garde recordings and reaffirms their position as one of this generation’s most dynamic live acts.   

Deerhunter 
‘Timebends’ [12.38]

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

+ You can buy Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared on brutalist grey LP, and CD, via 4AD here +
+ You can download and stream on all platforms here +

Deerhunter begin their European tour this weekend, with Cate Le Bon supporting at London, Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham shows.  Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox and Cate Le Bon worked together on a 7-track EP Myths 004, released this week via Mexican Summer.  Listen here. 

November
2nd - Whelans, Dublin, Ireland **SOLD OUT**
3rd - Whelans, Dublin, Ireland [3pm matinee performance]
3rd - Roundhouse, London, UK^ [TICKETS]
4th - Concorde 2, Brighton, UK [TICKETS]
5th - SWX, Bristol, UK^ [TICKETS]
6th - O2 Ritz, Manchester, UK^ [TICKETS]
7th - The Crossing, Birmingham, UK^ [TICKETS]
8th - Le Guess Who? Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands [TICKETS]
10th - Sonic City, Kortrijk, Belgium [TICKETS]
13th - Epicerie Moderne, Lyon, France [TICKETS]
14th - TPO, Bologna, Italy [TICKETS]
15th - L’Amalgame, Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland [TICKETS]
16th - Technikum, Munich, Germany [TICKETS]
17th - Synästhesie Festival, Berlin, Germany [TICKETS]
21st - Fuzz Live Music Club,Tavros, Greece [TICKETS]
22nd-23rd - Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey [TICKETS]

^ - w/ Cate Le Bon

“The best indie rock band in the US.”  - The Guardian 
“One of today’s great American bands… Some of Deerhunter’s prettiest songs to date.” - Uncut 8/10
“One of the great guitar bands of the 21st century, with a catalog full of wild highs, deep sorrows, searing rages, and precisely zero bad albums. Their eighth LP, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, continues that streak.” - Rolling Stone​
“Their poppiest, most direct album yet.” - Q ****​
“Solid-gold tunes.” - MOJO ****
“This is how you turn pop into art.” - NME ****​