TAG: Atlas Sound

Nov11

Atlas Sound – Parallax (Review)

Atlas Sound

Parallax

Released by 4AD


The name Bradford Cox chose for his latest Atlas Sound release perfectly captures the connection between his two main musical outlets. Parallax is the term for the differences that become apparent when looking at the same thing from different vantages, and on his album of that name Cox continues to dissolve the distinct features that once separated the looping bedroom ambience of his solo work as Atlas Sound releases and the psyched up rock he worked up with Deerhunter. “Earthquake!” and “Helicopters” were among the highlights of his band’s ...

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Dec13

Laetitia Sadier :: Interview

The Stereolab Chanteuse Goes Solo 

For most of the ’90s and the early 21st century, Stereolab made a stellar career out of sounding like bookish Europeans let loose on permanent South American holiday. After almost 20 years, the band called it quits in 2009. Laetitia Sadier, lead vocalist and co-founder with now ex-partner Tim Gane, released her first solo record, The Trip, on September 21, a few weeks ahead of the November 15 release for ‘Not Music,’ the “second half” of Stereolab’s swan song, 2008’s ‘Chemical Chords.’

We spoke with Sadier after her European solo tour wrapped up. She was at home in London with her boyfriend. Her son was playing video games. She had just come from her shiatsu class.

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May01

Nice Nice – Extra Wow (Review)

Nice Nice

Extra Wow

Released by Warp Records


Portland duo Nice Nice have been a making music for more than a decade. Their first full-length, Chrome, was released in 2003, as well as a handful of other EPs, but it’s Extra Wow that most accurately displays their very real and impressive capabilities as a band. While previous records focused more on a sparse, sometimes disparate sound that very much came from their Pacific Northwest roots, Extra Wow is a more nuanced album, more concerned with layering and ambiance and circularity than dissonance and lo-fi production.

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Dec09

Magnetic Fields, Atlas Sound, Four Tet, Mark Kozelek to Play Noise Pop

From Pitchfork:

The Noise Pop Festival, which takes over venues around San Francisco, tends more toward pop than noise. Next year’s festival is no different. The 18th Noise Pop fest, which which goes down February 23 – March 1, will feature plenty of all-stars. Among the bands participating: the Magnetic Fields, Atlas Sound, Rogue Wave, Four Tet, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Mark Kozelek, John Vanderslice, Foreign Born, Zee Avi, the Limousines, and We Were Promised Jetpacks.

The festival also includes an music industry mini-conference called Industry Noise, which will feature speakers, panels, discussion groups, and individual mentoring, taking place February 27 at the Swedish American Hall.

[Pitchfork]

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Oct20

Atlas Sound – Logos (Review)

Atlas Sound

Logos



While Bradford Cox's past solo work as Atlas Sound explored introversions through loops and reverberations, in bringing together the carefully imagined collection of spontaneity that is Logos, he set sights outward and zeroed in on expansive intimacies through barely tethered daydreams. Most of the songs were written during the same period he and his band Deerhunter wrote their exquisite Microcastle LP, and much of the music on Logos was born of inspiration found in friends on tour and opportunistically captured in single takes. Cox, his looping pedal, guitar and ...

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