The Wordless Novel by ametsuki calas
Deerhunter - Breaker
Deerhunter recently announced Fading Frontier, the follow-up to 2013’s Monomania. Today, following lead track “Snakeskin”, they’ve shared another video. Directed, photographed, and edited by Bradford Cox (with additional photography by Lockett Pundt), “Breaker” fades together dreamy visuals of the bandmembers as Cox and Pundt sing their first on-record duet.
Where the recent “Snakeskin” achieved a gawky funkiness we’d never quite heard from Deerhunter before, “Breaker” is, in a subtle sense, the closest they’ve come to beach-blanket pop. The track is a splash of clear water sonically, too, its dreamy verses crashing into a jangling chorus where Pundt and Cox sing in harmony for the first time. Cox sings of death and Christ—themes present in his songs since the early days—but here, amid possible references to Cox’s being hit by a car in 2014, he sounds at peace.
Together, Pundt and Cox could be two Wilson brothers from a state drenched with humidity; the synth-led instrumental interlude glints idyllically. If the video for the song submerges Cox and Pundt (along with drummer Moses Archuleta and bassist Josh McKay) in mesmerizing visual overlays, they’re still gazing forward and not resisting the current.
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