This year I received a birthday present, the best birthday present, about nine months late. Yeah, nine months. Kinda like a baby, and something I'm surely all goo goo ga ga about now.
The gift: "Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel," the first album from Atlas Sound that came out February 19.
Some background: Atlas Sound is the solo project of Bradford Cox, without a doubt, an extraordinary and compelling musician who leads the band Deerhunter. Dude's prolific, and reputedly updates the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/Lotus Plaza blog with tons of goodies pretty frequently.
The music: Atlas Sound is truly all over the map, with dreamy 1950s melodies adorned with layers upon layers of fuzzy shoegaze-style Martian sounds. Pretty otherworldly stuff for being bedroom music.
A live version of "Recent Bedroom," 2/18/08 in Georgia:
Photo courtesy of Atlas Sound MySpace.
November 10, 2008
Belated appreciation: Atlas Sound
This year I received a birthday present, the best birthday present, about nine months late. Yeah, nine months. Kinda like a baby, and something I'm surely all goo goo ga ga about now.
The gift: "Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel," the first album from Atlas Sound that came out February 19.
Some background: Atlas Sound is the solo project of Bradford Cox, without a doubt, an extraordinary and compelling musician who leads the band Deerhunter. Dude's prolific, and reputedly updates the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/Lotus Plaza blog with tons of goodies pretty frequently.
The music: Atlas Sound is truly all over the map, with dreamy 1950s melodies adorned with layers upon layers of fuzzy shoegaze-style Martian sounds. Pretty otherworldly stuff for being bedroom music.
A live version of "Recent Bedroom," 2/18/08 in Georgia:
Photo courtesy of Atlas Sound MySpace.
November 5, 2008
Thom Yorke's Nov. 5 present
Oh happy day. For all of the inspiration, pride and hopefulness I feel now that Barack Obama is set to lead our way for the next four years (social progress and global respectability, anyone?), I must also thank Mr. Obama, and Jonny Greenwood's mum, for the groovy remix of "Harrowdown Hill" Thom Yorke posted on Dead Air Space today.
Mr. Yorke:
"did i fall or was i pushed?
in celebration of nov 5th
jonnys burthday
amid bonfire and fireworks in the UK
and the dawn of a new era in politics in the USA
i humbly donate a remix of harrowdown hill that was finished ages ago during the band webcasts,
a small reminder of the dark days of Bush's....
x"
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