Halcyon Digest
Halcyon Digest is Deerhunter’s fifth studio album, released 27 September 2010. It was recorded in June 2010 at Chase Park Transduction studios in Athens, Georgia, with engineer David Barbe, by a four-piece band and producer Ben H. Allen. It is the band’s last album featuring bassist Josh Fauver. The final track, 'He Would Have Laughed', was recorded separately by Bradford Cox at Notown Sound in Marietta, Georgia, as a tribute to Jay Reatard. The album artwork, by Atlanta photographer George Mitchell, depicts Dennis Dinion from the 1982 Miss Star Lite Pageant at the Star Lite Lounge on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta — selected for its immediate connection to the music, especially 'Basement Scene'. It was Deerhunter’s first album distributed solely by 4AD worldwide.