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Deerhunter vocalist's solo project Atlas Sound delivers some technical and musical magic on his newest full length Parallax. Each track arrives and departs with maturity and patience, traversing a route not unlike The The in its heyday, replete with erudite vocals from Bradford Cox that quietly mutate from Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger to U2's Bono. Closing the album with one of the best tracks, Lightsworks, assures repeated plays and signal that this cat knows what he is doing. For those parts of the planet with discernible changes of season, Parallax is a welcome record for our darkening days.
01. The Shakes
02. Amplifiers
03. Te Amo
04. Parallax
05. Modern Aquatic Nightsongs
06. Mona Lisa
07. Praying Man
08. Doldrums
09. My Angel Is Broken
10. Terra Incognita
11. Flagstaff
12. Nightworks
Thank you once again to the year 2011 for producing such clever albums, in this case Timber Timbre's Creep On Creepin' On. COCO starts with a percussive piano beat in "Bad Ritual" that sets the stage for an album that treads an unusual path between Tom Waits' patient, moody song construction, The The's vocal intensity and then through the occasional late 1960s psychedelia. Spindrift, a band on The Dandy Warhols' label Beat the World, tried a similar sound a few years ago, but those cats seemed more concerned about novelty than quality songs. This one's a keeper.
