sweetfoolthemouth | 9 Jul 2009 17:43
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Atlas Sound - Logos

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4137327-yo-logos-atlas-sound-album-number-two-out-in-october

Yes, PR are on holiday this week, well, one of them, anyway.

Yo! Logos! Atlas Sound album number two out in October
The story so far:
Last year the man, the legend, Bradford Cox took it upon himself to have a massive freakout when the second
album from his Atlas Sound semi-ambient solo project got leaked across the internet after an, er,
'enterprising' Radiohead nerd hacked into Cox's Mediafire account and whacked the demos for Logos up on ateaseweb.com.

Commented Cox at the time:

Whoever posted this: YOU ARE FUCKED. I don't believe you. I can't understand how you go on living.

Commented Cox a couple of hours later:

Fuck this shit. I can just make another album. It's not finished and now it never will be. It was also going to
have a rad cover. i would describe it to you but that would be stupid... this record was not free to record, so
if you'd like to pay for hearing it send a paypal donation to lastdeerhunteronearth <at> yahoo.com. I am not a
fucking opportunist so don't think I expect it.

Before proceeding to delete the whole shebang, later apologising to the handful of obsessives who
actually paid him and offering refunds to all.

Since then Logos has only existed in myths, rumour, and an underlying general expectation that it'd
probably come out anyway as that's what happened to the similarly leaked Weird Era Cont. Plus frankly Cox
has certain standards of profligacy to maintain, and with just Deerhunter's Rainwater Cassette
Exchange and two million or so free downloads out in '09 so far, quotas were in danger of being missed.

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Video: Atlas Sound: 'Bitemarks' (live)

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Anyway, enough mithering: Logos comes out in Oct 20 on Kranky in the US, meaning it'll probably be along Oct
19 on 4AD in the UK. Dunno. Think the UK PR is on holiday this week. So yeah, tracklisting runs thusly:

The Light That Failed
An Orchid
Walkabout [ft. Noah Lennox (Panda Bear)]
Criminals
Attic Lights
Shelia
Quick Canal [ft. Laetitia Sadier]
My Halo
Kid Klimax
Washington School
Logos
...and basically we can confidently predict it'll be unspeakably awesome. Of particular note is track
eight: the early 'Quick Canal' was probably the best thing Cox has ever done, and her out of Stereolab would
seem the perfect icing on the cherry to its chic European swooshing. Though ominously the press release
now implies it may no longer be 15 minutes long. Tsk. Also Panda Bear will be doing a guest honk or something
on 'Walkabout', a collaboration based on a sample of 'What Am I Going to Do?' by the Dovers.

In other sections of the release, Cox describes Logos as less inbtrospective than predecessor Let The
Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, and apologises for his big old freakout. That's okay
Bradford, we love you. Tell you what we think about it when it leaks, yeah?

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Gmane