Discuss “On the hunt with Deerhunter”

Arranged urbanely around a large gray van, each bearing a cool, devil-may-care gaze, three of the five members of Atlanta’s Deerhunter loiter, hours before their show, behind The Underground — an appropriately named venue for a band that started out playing raucous Atlanta-area house parties and hole-in-the-wall joints packed with sweaty hipsters. Bassist Josh Fauver — the most vocal of the band members — was starting to get restless. Of life on the road, Fauver says, “I hate it. It’s boring.”

Despite the temporary ennui, this has been an eventful year for Deerhunter. Before playing at Austin’s megafestival South by Southwest, the band recorded its latest album Cryptograms in Commerce, Ga., a podunk town outside music mecca,...