Atlas Sound is the name of a musical solo project of Bradford James Cox, the lead singer of Atlanta four-piece Deerhunter. Cox was born in Athens, Georgia in 1982 and suffers from Marfan Syndrome.[1] The singer has released an album entitled Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel on indie-label Kranky to favorable reviews. In explaining his reasoning for a solo project, Cox has stated, “It’s just that I have ideas that I can’t make work with a five piece rock band…there’s kind of this palette of sounds that I use that I don’t necessarily get to use with Deerhunter”.[2] Cox has noted his heroes to be Ricky Wilson from The B-52′s and Laura Carter from Athens punk band the Bar-B-Q Killers.

Logos is the upcoming second studio album from ambient experimental project Atlas Sound. It is scheduled for release on October 19, 2009 in Europe by 4AD, and on October 20 in the US by Kranky Records, both of which released Atlas Sound’s previous effort, Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel. The album features guest contributions from Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear of Animal Collective) and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier.

An unmastered and unfinshed version of Logos was accidentally leaked in 2008 by frontman Bradford Cox via his own mediafire account. The incident caused an outrage from Cox, who posted on his blog that he felt what was leaked was simply a “sketch” of what he intended to be the final product; and was not meant to be released publicly. He almost abandoned the project, but continued to work on the album shortly after the incident. A leak of the finalized version of the album surfaced on September 1, 2009.

The album’s first single “Walkabout” (a duet with Panda Bear) was made available for streaming and download on 4AD’s website.