Atlas Sound - Logos There aren't a ton of you that know me in real life but those that do and who have spent any amount of time talking to me about music know that I am fanatical about Bradford Cox and just about everything he's ever written. For those not on a first name basis, Bradford is one the primary creative forces behind the ultra successful indie darling of the 2010s, Deerhunter. Before and during Deerhunter's rise to fame, he also wrote and produced albums as a one-person-band called Atlas Sound. Logos, with its artwork seen here as an overexposed photo of Bradford showing his Marfan Syndrome related sunken chest, is a gorgeous, sad, and sort of haunting album. The artwork, in my opinion, is as exposing as the music and serves as a sort of visual metaphor for what it feels like to be fully on display for the judgment of your peers...in this case, the music scene. I relate a lot to this album not just because I personally enjoy listening to it, but because I wrote an album not entirely unlike this one years ago, though to much less critical acclaim (lol, not much at all, if we're being real). I felt like I knew how to write music and I wanted to get my music out there, but I was shy, I didn't have a band behind me, and I liked the idea of hearing what a band of only myself would sound like. Bradford took songs that very well could have been (and in a few cases were) Deerhunter tracks from his Atlas Sound portfolio and recorded this eclectic and moving collection of tracks on Logo. He also had some pretty talented and famous friends like Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear aka the voice you probably recognize most from Animal Collective) and their collab track, Walkabout, was a DEFINITIVE JAM for the entire summer of 2010. If you know it, it probably soundtracked your trip to SXSW, your late night backyard kickbacks, your basement parties, and your windows-down roadtrips. Whether you use the literal Aborignal definition of "walkabout" being a rite of passage or the casual definition being more along the lines of finding yourself on your own, that song alone captured what I think Bradford meant to do with this album and well, I think he did it beautifully. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIosMnojAwM/?igshid=1i2mds3vrszqa
