Returns with Logos release, download Panda Bear collaboration now
17 July 09
Deerhunter’s lynchpin Bradford Cox returns to his solo guise, Atlas Sound, for another round of ethereal pop genius with his second solo album, Logos, which will be released on October 19, 2009.
Whilst its predecessor (Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, 2007) was a record of fragile beauty and acute experimentalism in comparison to the often volatile bluster of Deerhunter, Logos has a far more rooted pop sensibility.
At its heart is ‘Walkabout’, a collaboration between Cox and Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) put together whilst he was on tour with Animal Collective in Europe. Combining their love for tape loops and doo-wop, the track lifts the hook from The Dovers’ classic 1966 garage track ‘What Am I Going To Do?’ to form a glorious summertime jam. "If Logos is in any way as good as this song, we will not need much else in the fall." The FADER. You can download the track now from our radio player to the left of this article or by going here. Elsewhere Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier also lends her vocals to the kaleidoscopic motorik number, ‘Quick Canal’.
After an unmastered draft of Logos was accidently leaked by Cox via his infamous blog, with its caverns of covers, demos and mixtapes the 27-year-old makes freely available to his legions of fans, the finished article is the sound of Atlas Sound changing up; away from such piercing introspection but retaining the ambient bedroom recording charms that initially made the this pop prince’s solo project so bewitching.
The tracklisting is as follows:
'The Light That Failed'
'An Orchid'
'Walkabout' ft. Noah Lennox (Panda Bear)
'Criminals'
'Attic Lights'
'Sheila'
'Quick Canal' ft. Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab)
'My Halo'
'Kid Climax'
'Washington School'
'Logos'