Blog: I Hope Your Ears Bleed

Bradford Cox makes Xanax rock, mumbling over stoned minor chords and losing himself in a song's gauzy afterglow. His solo project, Atlas Sound, and his better-known band, Deerhunter, both take this ramshackle approach to melancholy, though the latter has always made for better art. Cox's numerous afflictions make for good art, too, and as he obviously knows, his songs and his interviews reveal much about his troubled childhood. He's sung about his own imagined crucifixion more than once. The singer suffers from Marfan's syndrome; that's his collapsed frame on the cover. All this paints a portrait of Cox's [...]

• Atlas Sound - Walkabout (Feat. Noah Lennox)