Deerhunter’s fourth full-length Halcyon Digest arrives 9/28 via 4AD. To get the promotional wheels turning, the band’s concocted an “interactive Xerox art project,” aka they want you to join their Street Team. As far as the aesthetic and concept, Cox remembers “being fascinated with the ephemera of 70’s – 80’s artrock in record stores like Wuxtry in Athens where I hung out as a kid or Wax ‘N Facts in Atlanta.” He continues:

"You’d see a photocopied faded B-52’s flyer next to a poster for Lou Reed or XTC. It was like an artpunk scrapbook on those walls. It made my head spin. Who are these people? Who are the fucking Residents with these weird-ass eyeball faces?"

He, in turn, put together the above flyer with old-fashioned scissors and glue. Hardcore fans can now print it, photocopy it, hang it up around their town, take a photo, and send the results to flyers@halcyondigest.com. The photos the band receives will be posted at the new halcyondigest.com site, where you can currently look at some black and white images while listening to loops. Additional instructions:

"Fans are asked to include the city where the photo was taken in the email. People participating are asked to respect local laws regarding the posting of flyers, and to ask permission before posting them on private property."

If you decide to snap and send a pic, Halcyon Digest’s first single and an exclusive non-album track will appear in your Inbox in the next few weeks.

I look forward to hearing this. The word a few weeks ago was that they were mixing this album with Ben Allen, who engineered and mixed Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and Fall Be Kind EP. I'm not a big AC fan, but I do like both of those releases and I really like how they sound.

Really excited about this. Second-most anticipated after Sun Kil Moon

Cool, really looking forward to this.

How is there not more hype about this album? Did y'all forget that Microcastle totally fucking destroyed?

Seriously. The only album for the rest of the year that I look forward to more than this is Radiohead, and that doesn't really count since there's no firm release date.

Deerhunter and Panda Bear should make for a pretty fucking tasty September.

PM me for single

I think it's safe to post. [link] They just wanted to make sure the poster-plastering crowd got it first.

It's pretty good, too.

I just bought this from a little store over here. Er, is it meant to be out yet?

One-and-a-half listens.

Hmm.

Maybe it'll grow on me.

just got it

pretty easily their best record.

then again this is coming from a sort-of non-fan who thinks that Cryptograms isn't much more than a band getting its feet wet. Microcastle never grabbed me either.

this one, however, has a bunch of sticky melodies that have been stuck in my head, and I keep wanting to listen to it. that hasn't happened with their other releases.

i don't know if it's their best, but certainly deerhunter continues to evolve, and that in itself is exciting. i love the sound of this record.

Weird - Microcastle was instant love for me, where nothing (beyond the opening song) really connected with me on this one. I'm certainly not writing it off yet, I'll be giving it some more spins to give it a fair chance.

Microcastle was and still is a great record for me. Not a big fan of Cryptograms. Anyone have a link for this?

Nevermind, got it and listening now.

I still don't know. I like it, but I think is that it's missing what my favourite stuff was about the band before - the driving robotic beat coupled with layered sheets of brain-drilling psychedelic guitar. On initial listen, they've really pared back that aspect on this record.

I love the single, still, and I liked "Desire Lines" a lot.

Yeah, Desire Lines is great. I kind of wish the rest was more like that, but I think that's more to do with how I expected the album to sound and not so much to do with its actual quality. I think it'll need a few weeks to sink in.

Yeah it's much more song-based than Microcastle, which I should have seen coming given the EP and the single. I definitely need some time with it.