December 25, 2009

15. Logos / Atlas Sound


Logos

Bradford Cox collected his personal demos after they were leaked over the internet and gave them a proper home on the album Logos. Thankfully the skinny frontman for Deerhunter shared his experimental bedroom projects--we properly received two of the best songs of the year as Cox continued to delve into the electronic-influenced possibilities of sixties-pop sounds. Indeed, the "duets" with Laetitia Sadier of Sterelab and Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) are the best moments on Logos. With vocals from Sadier, "Quick Canal" plays to Cox's stream-of-consciousness strength and pulses its way through a decidedly end-of-the-decade experiment in what can be described as a kind of classic-lab pop. And with help from Lennox, "Walkabout" becomes another Pet Sounds-obsessed runaround.

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