Description:	USED CD on Kranky, EX/EX
	Format:	CD
	Condition:	Used
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	Kranky
	Price:	£6.49
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brian on 08 February 2008.

Shoehorning this review in here. That's HERE. Yarp. It's a CD by Atlas Sound who is Bradford Cox from Norm faves Deerhunter. Don't know how to accurately describe this but it sounds like future shoegaze to me. Beautifully atmospheric music with drifting clouds of treated guitar fog hovering over minimal percussion, vocals floating spectrally at first but coming back down to earth as tracks progress. This is glacial space pop with heart, a wall of twinkling synths envelop your soul as the simple metronomic beats & ethereal sounds lull you into a delightful mindset. It's very widescreen sounding, blending Deerhunter's sonic cathedrals (hehe) with elements of Brad Laner's woozy experimentalism, Cornelius's cerebral avant-pop & even mild touches of Arcade Fire/Flaming Lips style celebration. It's a journey of warm, epic proportions. Much more than mere audio wallpaper, I can see this capturing many a heart this year. This would be Album of the week material but we got it late so ho hum! On Kranky, home of the hits.

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What their label says...

Atlas Sound is the solo moniker of Deerhunter frontman / provocateur Bradford Cox.
Deerhunter’s ‘Cryptograms’ album (also on Kranky) has recently featured in Top Albums Of 2007 selections in such highly regarded publications as Mojo, Uncut and Wire, to name but a few.
Here on his debut album, Cox’s 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 into a new context, with newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned with guidance from Kranky artist Nudge’s Brian Foote. The result is fourteen 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. 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.
"A largely ambient meditation on romantic obsession full of densely layered electronics and guitars that sound as if they were beamed in from some haunted parallel universe." - The Fader (USA)

For fans of: Deerhunter, Panda Bear, My Bloody Valentine, Numbers.
Tracklisting: 01. A Ghost Story 02. Recent Bedroom 03. River Card 04. Quarantined 05. On Guard 06. Winter Vacation 07. Cold As Ice 08. Scraping Past 09. Small Horror 10. Ready, Set, Glow 11. Bite Marks 12. After Class 13. Ativan 14. Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel