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Broadcast, ATLAS SOUND @ Neumos on Halloween!

October 26th, 2009

I suspect—with the aid of several clues, including interviews, records and blog posts—that Bradford Cox has a rampant imagination. The kind of imagination that would make inventive children jealous. And in some ways, the Deerhunter frontman and Atlas Sound wizard still creates his music through the kaleidoscopic mind of a child, albeit a melancholic one. It’s this sense of sadness and internal strife, stemming from an awkward, diseased (he suffers from Marfan Syndrome), sexually confused childhood, that has manifested itself quite plainly in much of his work. But he also has that creative brain power we all crave, and you know what that imagination is good for? Dreams: those blurry, nebulous brain reflexes that confound us during our sleep and enchant us during our day. Logos, the new offering from Atlas Sound, essentially plays out like one shifting, streaming dreamscape, filled with a thousand different snippets of sound and image, unfamiliar characters making brief appearances, jarring jubilation and drifting despondency, all buoyed by Cox’s trademark hypnotic rhythms and doo-wop desires. Listen/read more here.

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Atlas Sound performs on Halloween (!) with the inimitable Broadcast, an extremely “curious” bill at Neumos. I haven’t listened to much Broadcast since the excellent lo-fi electro-psych of Tender Buttons, though word on the street is that their recent collaboration with the Focus Group is pretty bizarro. It’s entitled (get this) Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age. Check out the audio trailer below and read a bit more about the project here; it’s a vintage radio show-sounding amalgam of lyrics, music and found-sound. Seems like a perfect fit for a Halloween show. Other band Selmanaires have been providing backing band duties for Cox on this tour and will play a set of their own. Maybe Broadcast’s Trish Keenan will provide vocals for Atlas Sound’s “Quick Canal” in Laetitia Sadier’s stead?

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Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age Audio Trailer

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Doors at 8pm

$13.50 Adv

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