Atlas Sound is Bradford Cox. Future Shows will be solo performances using electronics, vocals, and guitar.
Atlas Sound Music Group Circa Spring Break 2008 Alumni: Brian Foote, Adam Forkner, Stephanie Macksey, Honey Owens, Pery Ferall
Influences
Robert Wyatt, Everly Brothers, Suicide, Laurie Anderson, The Breeders, Robin Guthrie, Casino Versus Japan, Stereolab, William Voight, Sparks, S.E. Rogie, Nuno Cannavaro, Piere Henry, Raymond Scott, Roy Orbison.
Sounds Like
"Pleasant guitar noise-clouds" - New York Times Art Beat
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"A largely ambient meditation on romantic obsession full of densely layered electronics and guitars that sound as if they were beamed in from some haunted parallel universe." The Fader
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CD Out Now:
Track Listing:
1. A Ghost Story
2. Recent Bedroom
3. River Card
4. Quarantined
5. On Guard
6. Winter Vacation
7. Cold As Ice
8. Scraping Past
9. Small Horror
10. Ready, Set, Glow
11. Bite Marks
12. After Class
13. Ativan
14. Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
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4AD is thrilled to announce the release of 'Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel' by Atlas Sound on May 5th. We have licensed the album outside North America from Kranky and the 4AD version will be distinguished by an additional disc of new material. There will be an extensive European tour throughout May to coincide.
Atlas Sound is the solo moniker of 25 year old Deerhunter frontman / provocateur Bradford Cox. It is also the earliest incarnation for his musical adventures.
Although “ Let the Blind …” is the Georgian’s debut album, the genesis of this music can be traced back to when Bradford was a kid, more specifically when in sixth grade ; a time when he discovered through reading a Beck interview that his family’s disused karaoke machine could be used as a rudimentary multi-tracking device. Furthermore, the darker childhood experience of spending an entire summer on a children’s hospital ward undergoing operations also (understandably) plays a pivotal part in colouring his music.
Bradford is everything with Atlas Sound and what you hear is a complex, expansive bedroom recording. Totally absorbed and working at a prolific rate, he channels a stream of consciousness, leaving the scorched beauty of his vocals raw and untreated. Bradford cites the “ideas that I can't make work with a five piece rock band,” as the basis of his solo work and unrestricted, he makes a currently unparalleled meld of garage rock and ambient electronics.
'Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel' is a serious body of work that manages to combine seemingly incongruous sound elements to make a wonderfully cohesive pop narrative. It is also undoubtedly one of the year’s first truly great albums.
My Let the Blind vinyl arrived today and to my sheer delight the front cover had the young boy's face reinstated. You were right, it is the most 'melancholy thing'. On closer inspection, the old man's hand is laying on the child's stomach, while his other hand is wrapped around his neck, almost restricting any escape. And then when i open up the gate fold, there's that prepubescent picture of you and i start to wonder how much of yourself you see in the boy on the front cover. It's almost like a before and after, or an on-the-outside/on-the-inside.
dear friend: my dad watched your pitchfork festival video (of his own volition) today. he was impressed, and can't wait to meet you (again most likely)....mostly because he loves the shrines...but seriously...weird.
"A largely ambient meditation on romantic obsession full of densely layered electronics and guitars that sound as if they were beamed in from some haunted parallel universe." The Fader
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
CD Out Now:
Track Listing:
1. A Ghost Story
2. Recent Bedroom
3. River Card
4. Quarantined
5. On Guard
6. Winter Vacation
7. Cold As Ice
8. Scraping Past
9. Small Horror
10. Ready, Set, Glow
11. Bite Marks
12. After Class
13. Ativan
14. Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4AD is thrilled to announce the release of 'Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel' by Atlas Sound on May 5th. We have licensed the album outside North America from Kranky and the 4AD version will be distinguished by an additional disc of new material. There will be an extensive European tour throughout May to coincide.
Atlas Sound is the solo moniker of 25 year old Deerhunter frontman / provocateur Bradford Cox. It is also the earliest incarnation for his musical adventures.
Although “ Let the Blind …” is the Georgian’s debut album, the genesis of this music can be traced back to when Bradford was a kid, more specifically when in sixth grade ; a time when he discovered through reading a Beck interview that his family’s disused karaoke machine could be used as a rudimentary multi-tracking device. Furthermore, the darker childhood experience of spending an entire summer on a children’s hospital ward undergoing operations also (understandably) plays a pivotal part in colouring his music.
Bradford is everything with Atlas Sound and what you hear is a complex, expansive bedroom recording. Totally absorbed and working at a prolific rate, he channels a stream of consciousness, leaving the scorched beauty of his vocals raw and untreated. Bradford cites the “ideas that I can't make work with a five piece rock band,” as the basis of his solo work and unrestricted, he makes a currently unparalleled meld of garage rock and ambient electronics.
'Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel' is a serious body of work that manages to combine seemingly incongruous sound elements to make a wonderfully cohesive pop narrative. It is also undoubtedly one of the year’s first truly great albums.
