Deerhunter have just shared the video for new single “Breaker” from the forthcoming album Fading Frontier. Like the song itself, which has Bradford Cox and Lockett Pundt sharing vocals for the first time, the video was a collaborative effort, directed by Cox with additional photography by Pundt. They’re both in front of the camera too, as are members Moses Archuleta and Josh McKay. Check it out, along with the “Snakeskin” video, below.
The band’s tour starts in about a month, one day after Fading Frontier is out, hitting the West Coast first and then heading to Europe and the UK before they get to NYC for those two NYC shows in December: the Brooklyn Vegan-presented show at Irving Plaza on 12/08 and then Warsaw on 12/09. Cox will open those shows with Atlas Sound sets and tickets are still available.
Glorious sound, bigger, clearer, more uplifting, brighter, yet still somewhat morose, aka still Deerhunter. So proud of my boys, this release is gonna be their biggest to date, and they deserve all the accolades they receive. A band of musicians grow with time and if they are artists, so does the music. It’s a mature sound. Big credit goes to producer Ben Allen for instinctively knowing what Bradford and Co. were trying to achieve, and then taking them there. And the duet I’m sure will not be the last. Perfect blend of harmonies and layering guitar effects. Deerhunter
‘Breaker’, from the album ‘Fading Frontier’, released October 16th, 2015 on 4AD Records
Even at their prettiest, Deerhunter can’t help but fuck with you. On the second verse of Fading Frontier’s glimmering drift “Breaker,” Bradford Cox paints a seemingly romantic portrait of all-night drives and the way they can make you forget your own mortality for a moment. But no, even the stars above are slowly dying. (“Uh oh.”) Lockett Pundt chimes in, “I can’t seem to stem the tide no more,” and yeah, at a certain point we all have to give in to time’s unrelenting current. But if you’re lucky, the flipside of aging is maturity, something Deerhunter demonstrate beautifully here — relatively speaking.
The Fat Angel Sings 