growing up now on Kranky records (2009)
Excusing the awkward album cover, the newest record from Bradford Cox reaffirms two things: first, that the prolific and Midas-like songwriter has an apparently bottomless well of song material; and second, that his music---whether with Deerhunter or under the Atlas Sound moniker---is increasingly moving away from the inaccessible noise-experiments that first put him on the scene and more towards a hook-centric, dream-pop. As a huge fan of Cox's more recent output, this continuing gravitation towards pop bliss is more than welcome, and there's a lot going on with Logos that I'm excited about. Whether it's the genius collaboration with Noah Lennox of Panda Bear and Animal Collective on "Walkabout," the naive promise of "Sheila," the awesome arc and build of the epic "Quick Canal," or the haze of bleeps and loops on "Washington School," Cox has done it again with another rewarding batch of enigmatic and juvenescent pop songs.
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