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Just like that, the Atlas Sound Music Group-- a Kranky supergroup of sorts comprising Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, Valet's Honey Owens, White Rainbow's Adam Forkner, Nudge's Brian Foote, and Atlanta-based drummer/guitarist Stephanie Macksey-- have finished their tour. "Alone again, naturally," reads the Love-referencing quote on Cox's Atlas Sound MySpace page. Before their previously reported stops in Chicago and at SXSW, the band fought off van problems, the flu, and worse on the East Coast leg of the tour, still managing to maintain a sense of humor (if not, understandably, regular blog posts) throughout.

Forced to leave much of their own gear behind before a recent Atlas Sound gig at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, the group borrowed equipment from fellow Best New Music vets Dirty Projectors. As seen in this video shot by Mark Schoneveld, the new setup helped emphasize the spry Afro-pop flavor of the guitar line on "Cold as Ice", which uses a sampled lick by Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt in its original version on Atlas Sound debut Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel. "Hey Dave, I just want to let you know this song sounds a little bit like a Dirty Projectors song," Cox says, ostensibly to Dirty Projectors main man Dave Longstreth. "But I'll pay you royalties on it."

[from Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel; out now on Kranky]