Staff Editor on January 20th, 2019

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Deerhunter’s intimate show Thursday night at the Lodge Room was pretty much everything their fans — who gobbled up all the tickets in under an hour when they went on sale — hoped it would be.

Bradford Cox and gang were kicking off a tour in support of their ninth album, the beautifully sprawling “Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?” With the crowd nestled shoulder to shoulder in the refurbished 95-year-old room, the band bookended their 15-song set with songs from their deep catalog, kicking it off with 2007’s “Lake Somerset” and finishing their encore with 2010’s “He Would Have Laughed.” The latter song got off to a bumpy start because of a guitar pedal malfunction, but the band retooled and restarted without further problem.

Deerhunter performed six of the 10 tracks on their new album — including “Plains” twice. The performance was being filmed for a video, so the band played it first with Cox simply singing lead vocals and a second time with Cox playing guitar and singing.

Setlist: Lake Somerset, Death In Midsummer, No One’s Sleeping, Element, What Happens To People, Helicopter, Revival, Plains (twice), Desire Lines, Snakeskin, Nocturne. Encore: Cover Me (Slowly), Agoraphobia, He Would Have Laughed

Photos by Josh Beavers