New Music: Atlas Sound (Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox): "Quarantined" [Stream]
Weren't able to pick up Deerhunter's new "Whirlyball" 7" at the one store in the country selling it? Bradford Cox has his psych-pop bullseye on you. The Atlanta band's dress-wearing frontman has posted several new songs by his Atlas Sounds alter ego to his MySpace page, all from the (apparently forthcoming) Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel record. The tracks are more song-oriented than some of his previous, mostly ambient, solo work-- such as the hazy, tick-tocking "Snow Falls"-- and they follow hot on the deer-hatin' heels of a limited split 12" with Mexcellent (Hoss Records).
From the new set of Atlas Sound tracks, "Quarantined" has the most in common with Deerhunter's new Fluorescent Grey EP and the second half of their equally spectacular second album, Cryptograms. "I'm waiting to be changed," Cox repeats, swathed in delay effects, over a surprisingly bouncy bass line and variety of clip-clop electronic percussion. An angelic hum permeates from the rafters. It's all part of Cox's latest metamorphosis, one suspects; as the fake-blood-dripping singer's MySpace profile assures us, he's "just a happy-go-lucky kind of guy!"
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