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.