Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? is the eighth and last studio album by the American indie rock band Deerhunter before hiatus. It was released on January 18, 2019, on 4AD. The album was co-produced by singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon, Ben H. Allen (who had previously worked with the band on Halcyon Digest and Fading Frontier), Ben Etter (who worked as a studio assistant on Fading Frontier) and the band itself. The first single, "Death in Midsummer", was released on October 30, 2018. The same day, a world tour in support of the album was announced, starting on November 4, 2018. The second single from the album, "Element", was released on December 6, 2018. The album leaked on December 12, 2018.

Lead singer Bradford Cox described the album as a "science fiction album about the present."

Title
The album's title is a reference to the posthumously published book of the same name by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard. Bradford Cox explained that he was "attracted less to the content of the book and more to this idea of a philosopher who spends his entire career predicting the disappearance of [culture], and then, on his deathbed, realizes it hasn't completely happened on its own during his lifetime. There's something sad and infinitely melancholy about that." Cox described the title as a "beautiful picture frame" for the songs he wrote for the album.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the 4AD website, except where noted.

Deerhunter
 * Bradford Cox – vocals; electric and acoustic guitars; synthesizer; percussion; auxiliary drums; piano; Chamberlin; tapes; mandolin
 * Lockett Pundt – electric, acoustic, slide, and twelve string guitars; organ; piano; mandolin; electric harpsichord; synthesizer; vocals
 * Moses Archuleta – drums; synthesizer; mandolin
 * Josh McKay – bass; marimba; piano, contrabass, electric piano; bells
 * Javier Morales – piano; electric piano; Chamberlin; tenor saxophone; marimba; bass synthesizer; bass clarinet; contrabass

Additional musicians
 * Cate Le Bon – harpsichord on "Death in Midsummer", vocals on "Tarnung", mandolin on "No One's Sleeping"
 * Tim Presley – abstract lead guitar on "Futurism"
 * Ben H. Allen III – synthetic bass system on "Plains"
 * Ian Horrocks – contrabass on "Nocturne"
 * James Cox – bass vocals on "Element"

Technical
 * Ben Etter – engineering, mixing
 * Samur Khouja – engineering
 * Ben H. Allen III – mixing
 * Bradford Cox – engineering, mixing
 * Heba Kadry – mastering