With the end of 2018 looming the music industry is already gearing up with scheduled releases and tasters for 2019. With albums from Sharon Van Etten and Deerhunter already inked in for January it promises not to be as barren as that month sometimes can be. Ahead of that the latter band have just released this, Death in Midsummer and it's the best thing they've done for some time.
Following the slightly disappointing, (to me at least) Fading Frontier album from 2016 it's a sign that this most distinctive band is back. The song should ceryainly alongside the promo where Bradford Cox, that most specific of frontmen pulls out all the stops. Prancing on a swing in a yellow dress above a Georgia swamp, making shapes on a broad deserted road, wandering round a derelict swamp, while the rest of the band just stand by, it's all pretty arresting to say the least. The song meanwhile is a cracker, mortality is an obvious concern, though according to press releases it focus on the 2017 Russian Revolution. Whatever, it's all highly promising.
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