It's a rainy weekend here in Chicago, which is too bad because it's also the Pitchfork Music Festival. I didn't attend this year, but I thought I'd do a post about one of best acts at the fest, Atlas Sound.
In February, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter released an album on Kranky under his Atlas Sound moniker. Let the Blind Lead Those Who See But Cannot Feel, while containing exactly 14 tracks, is actually not a mid-90s alternative album.
The gauzy sketch of a fever dream, Let The Blind... has been given all kinds of labels. Shoegaze, ambient pop, dream pop - whatever you want to call it, it's really good, and has a gorgeous roughness to it that makes it stand apart from all the obsessively clean dance pop coming out these days.
The album's best track is probably "Recent Bedroom." I can't imagine anyone into music not liking this song instantly - or at least anyone who's into the sound of Video Pop.
Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom
Moment of Pop Bliss:
01:03.53 - The stereo mixing on this bliss note is sublime.
01:08.12 - Every "why?" too.
03:14.92 - Spiraling back into the pop
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I saw Atlas Sound's set at Pitchfork. So far, it's probably the most musically interesting set I've seen at this year's festival. He came out and admitted that he didn't know what he was going to do -- that he hadn't really prepared for the set because he was busy working on his studio in Atlanta.
"I'm just going to wing it," he said. And then he went into a zone and made beautiful sounds.
Many of the artists who performed at Pitchfork were in the VIP area for his set. I recognized Fleet Foxes digging his set.
That's so great. He was the only one I hadn't seen before that I really wanted to. My friend had never heard him before but was blown away. Sounds like he definitely lived up to expectations.
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