Josh Fauver, best known as Deerhunter’s longtime bassist, has died. The news was confirmed by Deerhunter’s representative. He was 39. “Very difficult times now,” the band wrote in the caption of the below Instagram photo of Fauver with the band. Fauver was also a member of the Atlanta bands Electrosleep International and S.I.D.S. He ran a label called Army of Bad Luck.
Fauver joined Deerhunter in 2004 after the band’s original bassist Justin Bosworth died following a skateboarding accident. Fauver played on their debut self-titled album (2004), Cryptograms (2007), the Fluorescent Grey EP (2007), Weird Era and Microcastle (2008), Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP (2009), and Halcyon Digest (2010).
In a 2013 interview, Cox told Pitchfork that Fauver left the band via email in 2012 just prior to the recording of Monomania. “There was never a fight, nothing acrimonious,” Cox said. Army of Bad Luck remained active in the years following Fauver’s departure from Deerhunter, releasing new records by several Atlanta-based bands.
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This article was originally published on November 4 at 12:07 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated at 1:22 p.m. Eastern.
