
“Folk balladry and hazy chamber pop” was the description of Atlas Sound given on the Hawthorne Theater ’s website. True enough, those words reflect Atlas Sound’s recorded material accurately. For the live performance of said material, they could not be further from the truth. Wearing his sunglasses at night like some modern-day Corey Hart, he tells us he wants to start with a book of erotic poetry he purchased at the Powell’s Books store across the street. Atlas Sound (real name Bradford Cox) dives into a dramatic reading of the anthology’s more graphic selections, which are then [...]