Pitchfork gives Atlas Sound’s ‘Te Amo’ Best New Track
Atlas Sound
“Te Amo”
4AD
By Larry Fitzmaurice; September 16, 2011 Best New TrackArtists:
In my review of Deerhunter’s iTunes Live from Soho concert released earlier this year, I noted that one of the changes the Atlanta rockers have undergone over the past few years is frontman Bradford Cox’s voice. Where he was once content to softly swagger behind thickets of reverb and metal-plated guitar noise, he’s become a bolder performer in live settings, breaking into his higher register to unleash something more naked and more dangerous. Clearly, Cox has also noticed this previously unchecked strength: on “Te Amo”, the second taste we’ve received from Parallax, the latest solo LP under his Atlas Sound guise, he turns in his boldest performance yet, his voice unadorned by the blips and effects that characterized 2008’s Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (as well as, to a lesser extent, the following year’s Logos). The song itself is relatively simple— a looped piano figure or two, some spare guitars and percussion, watery ambience lying low in the mix— providing Cox with plenty of space to let his hair down and lean hard on his amorous ode to no one in particular: “We will go to sleep/ And we’ll have such strange dreams.”
[from Parallax; out 11/08/11 via 4AD]
As always, thrilled for my boy Bradford. Trying to place the live show where I heard this track before. I’m gonna go ahead and guess it was from Atlas Sound’s only set at SXSW 2011 at the Flamingo Cantina. It’s sort of coming back to be now. Cox ended up using someone else’s drum kit to tap out the rhythm of the track. The owner of the drum kit didnt leave any sticks. Playing MacGyver, SM58 microphones became Cox’s drum sticks (not plugged in, of course).
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