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| | | kranky (usa) #krank 114 cd atlas sound “let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel” compact disc - a ghost story
- recent bedroom
- river card
- quarantined
- on guard
- winter vacation
- cold as ice
- scraping past
- small horror
- ready, set, glow
- bite marks
- after class
- ativan
- let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel
| | february 2008 release ; first solo set from deerhunter frontman bradford cox ... |
| | artist: atlas sound
title: let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel
catalog #: krank114
formats available: cd / 2lp
release date: february 18, 2008
one of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, atlas sound is the solo moniker of deerhunter frontman / provocateur bradford cox. here on his debut album, cox / sound moves out of dank nightclubs filled with eternal existential drone punk, and relaxes at home in his grant park, atlanta bedroom. and this is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock and ambient electronic influences previously explored with deerhunter in a new context, with newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned with guidance from kranky artist nudge's brian foote. the result is 14 songs of melancholy and mania.
this is a true solo album, entirely created and produced by a single person. that is certainly not unique, especially in the contemporary scene. but bradford cox's unusual talent is the ability to take a wide variety of seemingly incongruous sound elements, and seamlessly meld them into a cohesive pop narrative. a sunken 4/4 techno beat underpinning "winter vacation"? perfect. mbira loops running over the top of "quarantined"? just what it needed. an insistent, clipped drum roll carrying "river card"? masterful. and ultimately it is this innate ability to combine all these disparate elements into a singular whole that makes this album such an enjoyable, and unique listen.
this album is for my best friend lockett. it has a lot to do with childhood. i wanted to make an album that was uplifting but honest, which is why it seems sad a lot of the time. i want to make music that could be 'healing' or therapeutic to people who relate to it.
- bradford cox, oct 20, 2007, harlem, new york |
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