New Virtual 7″ From Atlas Sound
March 19th, 2009
As 21st Century music fans, there are artists we come to follow incessantly and hope with clasped hands that some new output is just around the corner. When’s the new record gonna be out? When’s the next tour? When’s the next blog post? It’s all very fleeting and consumeristic at times, but the intoxication of new music from a favorite band is simply too much. Via Deerhunter and Atlas Sound, Bradford Cox has become one of those artists for me. I’m a disciple, and it’s only because I love the music he and his bandmates create. Nothing more, nothing less.
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To a certain extent, Cox has embraced this topsy-turvy world where bands are overexposed and the relationships with fans frighteningly intimate. He, too, uses a blog to communicate, mostly in the form of free music and videos (lately, anyway). It’s excellent and has tons of cool stuff. He regularly compiles ‘Micromixes’, which have exposed me to great new music and his own musical tastes—the 19th, and latest, one was particularly dreamy. He also pointed to a bootleg recording of an Atlas Sound show in Atlanta on New Year’s Eve.
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Today, he’s offered up a new Atlas Sound Virtual 7″ (his sixth), entitled Solo, Or ‘The Square’, and has spacey cut “Memorial Corridor” transmitting from the b-side. The title track is guitarless, like much of Atlas Sound’s catalogue, and utilizes a playful chime-beat to buoy Cox’s angelic appeals for the “right stuff”. “Memorial Corridor” transitions from an opening sequence of vintage satellite sounds and rhythmic synth pulses to distorted baptismal vocals and Cox’s classic strumming guitar layers.
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Apparently, there are plans for a new AS record, entitled Logos, to be released this year. Not sure when that’ll be, but hopefully these will keep you sleeping at night.
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Lyrics and gear for both after the jump.
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Solo, Or ‘The Square’:
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trials and tribulations
trials and tribulations
i got tired of the good life
i got tired of the good life
i would spend
two hours singing
but when i said
two a hours a day
paves the way
i paved
i got two hours on board
to the day
show me your cock on the square
on my way
dark living rooms on sunday afternoon
shit, shit
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just say it right
sugar white
and gave me sugar with it
my face was white
i had nothing with it
give me the right stuff
give me the right stuff
i got nothing with it
i had the right stuff
i got nothing with it
give me the right
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(keyboard, drum box, acoustic snare and hi-hat, percussion)
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Memorial Corridor:
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come now lay your burden down
no one ever leaves this town
dip my body in the creek
come now brother baptize me
lay your burden on the ground
no one ever leaves this town
come now lay me in the creek
brother won’t you baptize me
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(sampler, drum box, synth, acoustic and electric guitars, percussion)
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