After 2013’s Monomania, Deerhunter have today returned with a new single, ‘Snakeskin’ from a new record in ‘Fading Frontier’.

The piece is immediate, rolls with a unique and uneven Southern groove. Whether that’s a banjo, a slackjaw set of steel strings or a Nile Rodgers-type funk guitar motif, this is an unusual piece for the group to release, but immediately infectious. Ending with a characteristic 90 second playout, the piece descends into movements of strings, backward samples and a swamping of rhythmic interaction.

It is the group’s first piece of activity since singer Bradford Cox was involved in a car accident and hospitalised this past December. Judging from the ‘Snakeskin’ video below in which he stars however, Cox seems to have recovered well:

Deerhunter’s ‘Fading Frontier’ – due out on October 16th via 4AD – tracklisting and artwork:

01 All The Same
02 Living My Life
03 Breaker
04 Duplex Planet
05 Take Care
06 Leather and Wood
07 Snakeskin
08 Ad Astra
09 Carrion

UK and Ireland 2015 Tour Dates:

10-30 Brighton, England – All Saints Church
10-31 Liverpool, England – Liverpool Music Week
11-01 Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory D
11-03 Glasgow, Scotland – SWG3
11-04 Leeds, England – Brudenell
11-06 Manchester, England – Gorilla
11-07 London, England – Shepherds Bush Empire