Atlas Sound to play Whelans Nov 21st

Foggy Notions have just announced that Atlas Sound will be playing Whelans on November 21st with support from Hulk.

The last time I saw Bradford Cox play Whelans with Deerhunter was a bit weird. The setlist and performance was great, much better than their previous Andrews Lane show. What was weird eh? Just Bradfords between song banter, he seemed to be tripping balls. “Mellow yellow… I feel like I’m floating down a waterfall of pink candy floss” or something to that effect was proclaimed from the stage at one point. Then at another point Bradford seemed to get pretty irate when the audience wouldn’t describe their bedroom walls to him. It was a sunday gig, I wouldn’t have expected much in terms of crowd participation. Still a brilliant gig all in all.

I’m looking forward to hearing material from his new album ‘Logos’ live. I haven’t got the album yet but I have heard two or three songs from it. The title track and the track with Laetitia Sadier, Quick Canal are both perfect specimens of lush laid back indie. Oh and his collaboration with Panda Bear on Walkabout ain’t half bad either. You can download Walkabout over at the 4AD website.

Tickets for the Whelans gig are €13.50 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office, Tickets.ie, City Discs, Road records, Sound Cellar, and Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. Logos is out on 4AD / Kranky now.

Atlas Sound NYE bootleg

I don’t usually post links to bootlegs on anablog but I’m guessing Bradford is cool with this because I read about it on his blog…

You can download a solo electronic set by Atlas Sound at the Drunken Unicorn (Atlanta, Georgia) from New Year’s Eve over at Southern Shelter. Four of the songs are previously unreleased; Rogie Song, Lemon Diddley, Ghost Rock, Washington School. Also isn’t the Drunken Unicorn a sweet name for a venue? Most venues in Ireland have kind of bland names.

When Bradford gets angry…you know the rest

It’s hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox at the moment. In this interview with Analogue magazine, Bradford had the following to say about leaking records:

I resent someone else deciding when to leak your music for you. Like I’m not going to put our new album microcastle on the blog for free. Its an album we worked pretty hard on so its going to be more traditional

A week later and Deerhunter’s forthcoming album, ‘Microcastle’, was all over the blogs like eczema. This was a shockingly early leak, considering the album was not due out until October. In response, Deerhunter put together an EP called ‘Weird Era Contd.’ as a special surprise to be released with the album. According to GorrillavsBear, now this too was leaked, or more specifically swiped by some cheeky little scut who found out that Bradford’s mediafire folder was not protected. Not only that, but a demo of the forthcoming Atlas Sound album (Bradford’s solo project) was yoinked too and some pictures of Bradford as a child.

Mr Cox, understandably was not happy about all of this. The following screengrabs, of posts on the Deerhunter blog (since taken down) demonstrate just how unhappy he was.

To be honest, I’d feel a bit violated too.

Future Days Festival: Low live at Andrews Lane

Low, Atlas Sound
Future Days Festival, Andrews Lane Theatre

The second night of the Future Days Festival rolled in with the much anticipated second appearance of Atlas Sound in Dublin, the first being the unannounced support to Animal Collective in Whelans a few weeks ago. Loathe as I am to write anything that could diminish the wonder of Bradford Cox I couldn’t help but feel that the audience was somewhat cheated by his appearence, if it can be called an appearence at all. Hidden away sitting at the front of the stage some pedals and buttons were toyed with. If you weren’t two feet from the front, and with the sound level barely audible, it would have been altogether very easy to ask the question “When is Atlas Sound coming on?”. I still anticipate a proper debut from Atlas Sound.

Low’s recorded output has always been something to relish but it has always been their live shows that allows one to really see and hear what they actually are. Sedated when commited to the studio process, on stage another side emerges. Maybe emotions come easier to them when confronted with a few hundred faces staring back at them, an audience for their confessions to be heard. Tonight was no exception, indeed previous shows, even the stardust memeories of the Christchurch gig, were knocked to the ground and trampled on.

Starting in a somewhat languid manner with “Murderer” and the droney “Pretty People” it takes the double blow of “Sadinisita” and “In Silence” to be delivered before the signs of what was to follow emerged—-both were concise and immediate. A dreamy “Dragonfly” and a dipping “Silver Rider” allowed the waste of the American mid-west to stretch out in your mind before “Almost Fade” laid itself out in a fashion of Neil Young circa-Zuma. “Sunflower” gradually rises to its homely conclusion before “Point of Disgust” floats across like a plane in slow motion against a night sky. “Dinosaur Act” thumps its angry paws as never before leaving a crowd desperate to see no end in sight. “Little Arguement With Myself” and “Done” give the illusion of a sleepy climax before an elongated and angry “Canada” and “Breaker” crash and rumble out of the gate.

Somewhere tonight there was a little anger within Low, let the anger continue.

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Cool video for My Car by Atlas Sound

Above is a really cool fan video for my car off the Things I’ll miss Ep by Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox’s side project from Deerhunter). The Ep is available on the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound blog here. Talked about by Graveyard shift Shane here.

Darragh went along to the recent Foggy Notions Deerhunter gig in Whelans and got a chance to have a chat with Bradford and from what I’ve heard it was a pretty interesting interview. So check back later in the week for that. Loreana has a taster of the photos she took up on her photoblog.