Atlanta art rockers Deerhunter have shared a new single from their forthcoming eighth studio album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?. “Plains” was written and recorded partially in Marfa, during Bradford Cox’s residency at the Marfa Myths Festival. The song was inspired by the months preceding James Dean’s death, when he was filming his final movie, 1955’s Giant, in Marfa and is described by Cox as, “an elegy for ecology (a landscape done in toxic watercolors).”
“Plains” follows the previous singles “Element” and “Death In Midsummer.” Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? was co-produced by Cate LeBon, who joined Cox at the Marfa Myths Festival, and will be released January 18 via 4AD. It follows 2015’s Fading Frontier.
Listen to “Plains” below.
"Element" is the second single from Deerhunter's forthcoming record Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
If he weren't so dead-set on making music that could be deemed as capital "A" art, Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox could be a very good rock star. He's outspoken, audacious, practically writes his own headlines, and is absolutely impossible to look away from when he brings his A-game (and, occasio…
