Deerhunter Side-Project, Atlas Sound, Releasing Logos LP in October

When I interviewed Bradford Cox of Deerhunter recently, he told me that he had "an Atlas Sound album done." Turns out he wasn't lying. Logos, the second longplayer for Cox's side-project, will be released October 20 on Kranky Records in North America, and on 4AD in the rest of the world.

Cox's follow-up to 2008's Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel finds him losing the introspection that has thus far characterized Atlas Sound. As he's been doing in Deerhunter, here Cox is playing with more of a 'pop' approach, in his own weird way. And the literal isolation of the project has given way to celebrity collaboration; Logos finding contributions from Noah Lennox (AKA Panda Bear of Animal Collective) on "Walkabout," and Laetitia Sadier (the iconic vocalist of Stereolab) on "Quick Canal."

An early, demo-version form of Logos was accidentally 'leaked' by Cox himself, last year, making for much online soap-opera amongst the indie cognoscenti. Cox claimed he considered abandoning the record once its early sketches were outed, but eventually persevered. For he, and us, this finished, fully-polished Logos is the final reward for sticking with it.

Logos Track List:
1. "The Light That Failed"
2. "An Orchid"
3. "Walkabout"
4. "Criminals"
5. "Attic Lights"
6. "Shelia"
7. "Quick Canal"
8. "My Halo"
9. "Kid Klimax"
10. "Washington School"
11. "Logos"