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To tar Bradford Cox with the label `easy listening' is to do him a grand injustice, but both his 2008 releases wash over the listener in such an aurally pleasing and unchallenging way that it is difficult to slap any other sticker on him. Like his Deerhunter album Microcastle, this album sounds lazy, but in an entirely commendable way, like it was recorded in shorts and straw hat. It sounds summery in a shoegaze-y way and laces dreamy qualities through a fuzzy, warm haze.
The tracks seem to have an innate rhythm, and pulse gently accompanied by Cox's acquiescent drawl. What `Let The Blind Lead ...' possesses that Microcastle does not is a better sense of consistency, where all tracks are songs, rather than collections of ideas, and all compliment each other throughout, rather like Victorian gents doffing their caps respectfully to one another in the street. There is no reliance to fall into the overly experimental, which allows the album to fall comfortably under a straight `indie' classification, with thorough nods to shoegaze.
This has its drawbacks though, because where Microcastle was more adventurous, it had the propensity to succeed. Granted it was hit and miss, but where it hit it was marvellous. `Let The Blind Lead ...' suffers consequently. The album lacks a standout moment, despite being an equally understated record that repays dedicated relistening in full.
Both albums recall a more mute Grandaddy, failing to reach the same sense of abandon that The Sophtware Slump achieved, but humming along with the same drive to pleasantly please and to build layer-like with each listen. Sensory deprivation allows for acute perception elsewhere and in Atlas Sound Cox has produced a record above the ordinary, which leaves the listener comfortably numb, happily led by the deceptively simple but courageously effective experience.
The tracks seem to have an innate rhythm, and pulse gently accompanied by Cox's acquiescent drawl. What `Let The Blind Lead ...' possesses that Microcastle does not is a better sense of consistency, where all tracks are songs, rather than collections of ideas, and all compliment each other throughout, rather like Victorian gents doffing their caps respectfully to one another in the street. There is no reliance to fall into the overly experimental, which allows the album to fall comfortably under a straight `indie' classification, with thorough nods to shoegaze.
This has its drawbacks though, because where Microcastle was more adventurous, it had the propensity to succeed. Granted it was hit and miss, but where it hit it was marvellous. `Let The Blind Lead ...' suffers consequently. The album lacks a standout moment, despite being an equally understated record that repays dedicated relistening in full.
Both albums recall a more mute Grandaddy, failing to reach the same sense of abandon that The Sophtware Slump achieved, but humming along with the same drive to pleasantly please and to build layer-like with each listen. Sensory deprivation allows for acute perception elsewhere and in Atlas Sound Cox has produced a record above the ordinary, which leaves the listener comfortably numb, happily led by the deceptively simple but courageously effective experience.
0 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Not as good as the reviews in the music press would have you believe. It's quite pedestrian and if you stripped away the effects and experimentalism, you'd be left with some vague plodders. My overwhelming impression was "this guy cannot write a tune". But you have to have more than a willingness to be leftfield.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Richly textured, intensely personal fusion of dream and noise pop
3 Mar 2008
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Richly textured, intensely personal fusion of dream and noise pop from Atlas Sound, a side project of Bradford Cox, otherwise a member of Deerhunter. The intensely personal part you may or may not get at first, if ever without an explanation (available online, fortunately), since some of the lyrics are so personal as to be abstract, but then those lyrics are often lost in the mix, obscured by instrumentation, static or droning sounds, anyway. Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel can be seen as an album akin to David Bowie's Low, where the feeling one gets from the music presented is as important than anything said (or sung) directly. That said, the music here is by turns beautiful and unsettling, and for a record that's so highly experimental for the most part, it's also highly listenable. Worth checking out for fans of adventrous pop. Standout cuts: "Recent Bedroom," "River Card," "Cold As Ice" and "Ativan."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Bradford Is Dreamy
8 Feb 2009
Format:Audio CD
This album is one of the best of 2008, and while it may have slipped under the radar a bit, I think Atlas Sound is a more successful solo endeavor than anyone could have expected. Not as similar to Deerhunter as one may commonly assume, this album compiles what I consider some of Bradford Cox's most dreamy music. It is in the vein of a more tranquilized My Bloody Valentine or maybe even Luna, but very original simultaneously and something you would hope to hear upon entering heaven. The concerts he played to back up this album were just as incredible and surprisingly played majestically live. Bradford is one modern musician I have a lot of respect for, considering music and style is consistently changing decade by decade. Bradford escapes the realms of the average indie record and creates something totally blissful and beautiful on this album. Check it out if you don't believe me. This is healing music.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
20 track version a must.
11 April 2009
Format:Audio CD
Truly great album. I highly recommend to anyone that they pick up the 20 track cd import or double-vinyl version. The 6 extra tracks are totally essential to the whole of the album. Without em' is like watching a western in full-screen.
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