Description:	2CD inc exclusive tracks on 4AD
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	4AD
	Price:	£12.49
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...according to our Brian on 01 August 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!

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What their label says...

Atlas Sound is the solo moniker of 25 year old Deerhunter frontman / provocateur Bradford Cox. It is also the earliestincarnation for his musical adventures. Although ‘Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel’ is the Georgian’s debut album, the genesis of this music can be traced back to when Bradford was in sixth grade; a time when he discovered through reading a Beck interview that his family’s disused karaoke machine could be used as a rudimentary multi-tracking device.
Furthermore, the darker childhood experience of spending an entire summer on a children’s hospital ward undergoing operations also (understandably) plays a pivotal part in colouring his music. Bradford is everything with Atlas Sound and what you hear is a complex, expansive bedroom recording. Totally absorbed and working at a prolific rate, he channels a stream of consciousness, leaving the scorched beauty of his vocals raw and untreated.
Citing the “ideas that I can’t make work with a five piece rock band”, as the basis of his solo work and unrestricted, he makes an unparalleled meld of garage rock and ambient electronics. 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. It’s this innate ability to combine all these disparate elements into a singular whole that makes this album such an enjoyable and unique listen.
‘Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel’ is a serious body of work that manages to combine seemingly incongruous sound elements to make a wonderfully cohesive pop narrative. It is also one of the year’s first truly great albums.
Released as a single disc in the US, this issue on 4AD adds a bonus CD of exclusive Atlas Sound material.