ALTERNATIVE
Artist: Atlas Sound
Album: Logos
Tracks: “Walkabout” & “Shelia”
Street Date: October 19, 2009
Label: Kranky
Congratulations on your FOURSIE, Atlas Sound!
Awarded by: Layne Fox (Senior Director, Marketing/A&R)
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Bradford Cox’s solo project, Atlas Sound, is yet another means of transmitting his brilliance through music. The artist, who is also a member of Deerhunter, has released a total of ten EPs as Atlas Sound before releasing Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel in 2008 and Logos this year.
The long-time Animal Collective fan had the opportunity to work with the band’s Noah Lennox to record “Walkabout,” a song about questioning our futures and forgetting the past with Lennox repeating “What did you want to see / What did you want to be / When you grew up?” The memory evoking lyrics are matched nicely with a repetitive bed of melodies and rhythm – highlighting the simplicities of youth as well as the mundane repetition of adult life.
The talented artist creates lyrics in a flowing stream-of-consciousness method in the sense that all words are put together on the spot rather than pre-written. In “Shelia,” that seems hard to believe – mainly because these lyrics are well thought out, put together in a structurally concise manner while maintaining an endearing resonance.
“Shelia, you’ll be my wife / You’ll share my life / We will grow old / We will grow old / And when we die we’ll bury ourselves / And when we die we’ll bury ourselves / Because no one wants to die alone”
Read up on Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/ Lotus Plaza ongoings at Bradford’s blog.
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