Atlanta-based Deerhunter are set to release Microcastle, the follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms on October 31, 2008. Microcastle will be released simultaneously on CD and LP via Kranky in North America and 4AD in Europe.

Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver, and Moses Archuleta.

"Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips. The album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt: "Agoraphobia," and "Neither of Us, Uncertainly."