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Atlas Sound

Logos

Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox with the second experimental rock / pop outing in his solo project guise

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
4AD
UK Release date
19/10/2009
  1. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    It’s an album that needs to be taken as a whole, certainly it’s more of a coherent record than the previous Atlas Sound effort, it’s mood simply doesn’t lend to being chopped and changed. Suffice to say, it might be my favourite Cox release yet. Now that’s something special
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  2. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    Two of the best tracks on his second Atlas Sound full-length feature contributions Noah "Panda Bear" Lennox and Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab, but the album as a whole continues to refine and build upon what Cox does best
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  3. 8.0 |   Rave Magazine

    It’s a little bit long, a little bit loose, but Logos sees Cox giving us some more beautiful and eclectic songs to digest while we wait for Deerhunter to tour again
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  4. 8.0 |   Blurt

    Bradford Cox continues to make fascinating and beautiful music
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  5. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    "Walkabout" is built on the same kind of soaring choruses and layered samples that dominated Panda Bear's Person Pitch, but Cox's own distinct pop sensibility remains intact
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  6. 8.0 |   The Fly

    ...he’s is one of the decade’s most talented artists- his solely composed ‘Washington School’ providing the album’s giddily disorientating peak
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  7. 8.0 |   Q

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  8. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Like Animal Collective's best work, Logos manages to combine simple melodies with enough experimentalism to allow you to keep returning to the record with fresh ears, but not too much to reduce it to avant-garde mush.
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  9. 8.0 |   The Times

    So good is Logos ... that Cox might have to rethink where his priorities lie
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  10. 8.0 |   NME

    Cox may have tagged Atlas Sound as just another side-project, but ‘Logos’ is a clear indication that his solo creative output is just as richly rewarding as what came before
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  11. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Logos is a gorgeous, hallucinatory and somewhat sickly outing. While there's every chance he'll wrong foot us, and soon, this record is entirely in keeping with the increasingly self-erasing route Bradford Cox has taken as a musician
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  12. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  13. 7.5 |   The Australian

    Cox has relinquished laptop noodling and bedroom isolation for first-take immediacy and help from friends
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  14. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    An innate tunefulness turns soundscapes into songs that stick
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  15. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Logos doesn't displace Microcastle as Cox's masterwork to date. But it's an intriguing, often beautiful addition to a rapidly expanding body of work that has seemingly boundless potential
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  16. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Logos brims with a wide-eyed energy all its own, conveying a palpable sense of optimism that’s all too rare in Cox’s oeuvre
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  17. 6.0 |   Uncut

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  18. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    ...it still sort of feels like some mySpace star's first self-release, something promising but not something that holds the attention. It could be the lo-fi or otherwise "buried" vocals, or the general every-last-dropness of the more repetitive tracks, but either way it is a thing made of half absolute doo-wop killer and half filler
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