Josh Fauver, who served as Deerhunter's bass player for eight years before quitting the band, has died at the age of 39. The official cause of death has not yet been released.

Josh joined the band after their original bass player Justin Bosworth left in 2004. He went on the play the following year on their debut album and was there still when they released their critically acclaimed album Halcyon Digest in 2010.

Josh Fauver left the band in 2012, before they started work on their fifth album, Monomania. "There was never a fight, nothing acrimonious,” the band's frontman Bradford Cox later once told Pitchfork.

The band posted a photo of the band with Josh Fauver on their Instagram page yesterday with the simple but heartfelt captioned: “Very difficult times now.”

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Josh 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).

Josh decided to leave after touring in support of Halcyon Digest, “Josh Fauver, the longtime bass player, not the original bass player, but the longest running bass player, for unknown reasons that have not been explained to me, just… didn’t want to be in the band anymore for personal reasons, which I’m not privy to. There was no animosity or acrimony,” Bradford Cox told Bomb Magazine.

According to his Wikipedia entry, "Josh was a member of the following Atlanta DIY bands: Electrosleep International and S.I.D.S. Fauver also had his own solo project, called Diet Cola. His independent label "Army Of Bad Luck", has spawned a number of albums for several local bands, such as Pleasure Cruise & Battlecat, and Austin’s Finally Punk."

The Wikipedia entry also added: "On November 4, 2018, Fauver died in Atlanta, Georgia at age 39. Deerhunter revealed on social media that Fauver had died; a representative for the band confirmed the death. No cause of death was announced."