The Deer - The Beautiful Undead (LP)

Clear vinyl including full-color printed inner sleeve with lyrics and download code. When live music took global pause, The Deer had momentum to sort. The five musicians took the energy historically reserved for tour and brought it into the studio, a pressure cooker not only for creativity, but newly, for existential contemplation. The result is two full albums, the first of which is The Beautiful Undead. It’s an uninhibited collection reflecting upon what it means to lose your sense of purpose. The Deer, amidst turbulent assessment, transformed a paralyzing void into an empowering surrender of ego—a rollicking submission to the immense unpredictability of existing.  Throughout the album, The Deer maintain the modern folk flutter and Mazzy Star melodiousness they’re known for, but infuse those delicate bones with emotional tension, and indulge a new sonic edge. Enlivened by multi-dimensional instrumentation—synths, fiddle, mandolin, electric and acoustic guitars, slide guitar, piano, u