Atlas Sound

Atlas Sound is the name of a musical solo project of Bradford James Cox, the lead singer of Atlanta-based five-piece band Deerhunter. Cox was born in Athens, Georgia in 1982 and lives with Marfan Syndrome. The singer has released an album entitled, "Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel" on indie-label Kranky to favorable reviews. Cox has noted his heroes to be Ricky Wilson from the B-52's and Laura Carter from Athens punk band the Bar-B-Q Killers.

If its predecessor was a record of fragile beauty and acute experimentalism that spoke of its bedroom genesis, the second Atlas Sound album, Logos, arrived in 2009 with a far more rooted pop sensibility. Featuring collaborations with Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox and Laetitia Sadler of Stereolab, the album expanded on the often-insular tendencies of the first Atlas Sound record, this time outward gazing and almost sunshine loving in its ebullience. Moving away from piercing introspection and towards a grand pop plateau, Cox managed to translate his music into a more universally engaging form while retaining the intimate charms of the project.