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A.V. Club
To make a record about distance, Cox has written the most effortlessly approachable music of his career
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No Ripcord
Cox sounds comfortable and confident, and has made the best solo album of his prolific career
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Consequence Of Sound
The latest and greatest heart-pouring from Bradford Cox’s home-recording project
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FasterLouder
A record that picks up on the 70s powder-snorting, after-dark hedonism and subsequent post-glamour paranoia of Lou Reed’s Transformer and Bowie’s Station to Station, then turns it on its head and creates its very antithesis
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God Is In The TV
A ponderous, if not indolent slow-burner. And though nothing immediately leaps out at you, the purposeful realization soon dawns on you that this is indeed a minor revelation; a soulful dip into the inner workings of Bradford Cox
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BBC
Whichever way you look at him, he is currently the most gifted, fascinating and beguiling songwriter around, as well as the most prolific
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Spin
Iridescent electro-acoustic love songs for no one, angelic garage-pop regrets, and enough religious imagery to suggest that Cox and Girls' Christopher Owens know the Holy Trinity even more intimately than the preachier Justin Bieber - Parallax easily encompasses it all
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PopMatters
Astoundingly gorgeous
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Pitchfork
Parallax still makes him sound small, alone, and cut adrift from the world, but the way these songs breathe suggests he's more comfortable in his own skin, allowing him to draw his audience closer than ever
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The Line Of Best Fit
Coated in milky bedroom-pop ambience and deliriously catchy guitar inversions the core remains shockingly human, Bradford’s own lonely tales
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Pretty Much Amazing
A harrowing sonic adventure that retains all the expected stark undertones with a greater penchant for incredibly lucid stream-of-consciousness
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Prefix
Easily Atlas Sound’s best-sounding album to date
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Parallax not only feels more immediate than its predecessors, it’s also refreshingly candid and disarmingly sincere
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Q
His sustained, idiosyncratic vision is as absorbing as a trip-off world should be. Print edition only
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Mojo
A side project? Not after something with this much charm. Print edition only
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Drowned In Sound
Moments of genuine marvel, each one craving its own flowery descriptives, come thick and fast
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musicOMH
This is easily the most satisfying and rewarding set of songs that Cox has written in any of his projects and it'll be a tough ask to top it
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The Skinny
A robust set of pop songs from an ever-evolving talent
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Bowlegs
There is something in the musician’s writing, in his subtle melodies and the laid-back conveyance that you just can’t quite grasp or pin-point – it results in inimitable records that we just can’t get enough of
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State
Deceptively simple and hauntingly profound, Cox creates an ephemeral landscape of panoramic proportions, which evolves over the course of the 12-song collection
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NME
Another step towards Bradford finding self-contentment
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Blurt
Though Cox maintains his signature subtle desolation, he's more self-assured than ever this time
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The Guardian
What you hear most of all in that voice is a full-blooded 1950s croon, with shades of Gene Vincent in ballad mode
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Beats Per Minute
Cox is still an awkward introvert, but he’s learning to infuse his songs with a spirit that’s distinctly his own
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Paste Magazine
Possibly his best so far, and certainly the one that contains the band’s most straight-laced pop to date
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Under The Radar
While too restrained overall to match the tie-dyed brilliance of Logos, Parallax’s subtle charms demonstrate that Cox’s musical id is still alive and kicking
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Rolling Stone
Nearly every tune features a bright, immediate melody, leaving behind the diffuse musings he's favored in the past
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Slant Magazine
Parallax is the first record in which Cox fully embraces the role of a magical-realist storyteller, recounting dreamily desolate tales as much to himself as to his audience
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Clash
Every intricacy is amplified with a blissful simplicity
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The Fly
Effortless hooks add flavour to ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘My Angel Is Broken’, but this recipe is too deliciously obtuse to focus on the sweet stuff alone
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Uncut
A set of dreamy, classic-sounding pop nuggets. edition only
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