The National and Menomena Members Team Up as Pfarmers, Announce Debut Album

Pfarmers is a new band featuring Danny Seim (Menomena, Lackthereof), Bryan Devendorf (the National), and horn player Dave Nelson. Their debut album Gunnera is out May 12 via Jurassic Pop. Check out “The Ol’ River Gang” above and the album cover and tracklist below.

A limited pressing of 250 will be available on green vinyl. There’s also an ultra limited collector’s edition of the album, limited to 50 copies, that come with handmade seed bomb sculptures by artist Edward Cabral. The sculptures are made to resemble El Dorado folk art (they’ve got a song on the album called “El Dorado”) and they’re filled with real Gunnera seeds.

Seim said in a statement:

The record is about a dream I had where I’m reluctantly accepting a fear of drowning by focusing on being reincarnated as a giant Gunnera plant, which thrive on the banks of rivers (specifically the Jordan River i.e. the Biblical promised land) after I paint myself gold and sink to the bottom like the El Dorado of South American folklore.

Gunnera:

01 Benthos
02 You Shall Know the Spirit
03 Work for Me
04 El Dorado
05 The Ol’ River Gang
06 How to Build a Tube
07 Promised Land

Watch the National on Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under”:

Watch Menomena perform “TAOS” on Pitchfork.tv:

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