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Tiny Mix Tapes

Logos is an admirably worn, carefully composed record detailing a kaleidoscope of sound.

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Urb

While his work with Deerhunter remains impressive, Cox allows himself the most freedom while writing as Atlas Sound, and on Logos his risks are all rewarded.

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Lost At Sea

While the slower, wandering songs certainly make the composition and mood of the record, it's the more upbeat tracks, never Cox's previous forte, that shine on this disc.

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Paste Magazine

Logos is still a predominantly insular affair and all the better for it, with his aching melodies and ethereal arrangements pushing open the doors to a remarkably vivid inner world.

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Pitchfork

Logos feels familiar and assuring, another affecting dispatch from a corner of indie music that is increasingly starting to seem like one Cox pretty much owns.

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Filter

Though he occasionally buries his vocals under distortion, Cox is undeniably the star of the show. [Fall 2009, p.106]

Under The Radar

As the rest of the album testifies, Cox doesn't ned a helping hand in crafting undeniable pop--he's doing just fine on his own. [Fall 2009, p.56]

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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Sputnikmusic

They’re some decisive stuff, yet tend to leave the listener strangely alleviated, especially the title track: it’s the perfectly weird, yet high-energy song to get anyone out of their bedroom. That is, when they return to listen to this album again, of course.

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Delusions of Adequacy

Mostly though, this ethereal mix of multi-layered and textured dream-pop is frothing with jangly and heavily reverbed guitars, amid shoegazing drones and electro-style beats, that displays Atlas Sound’s sense of adventure and pop experimentation while providing the listener with countless entertaining spins.

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All Music Guide

These songs are nearly as wide-ranging and comprehensive as an actual atlas, but Cox keeps charting new territory.

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Slant Magazine

The album is intimate, tuneful, and exciting. You don't even have to know who Bradford Cox is to get a lot of enjoyment out of Logos, and that's saying something indeed.

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Drowned In Sound

Logos is a gorgeous, hallucinatory and somewhat sickly outing.

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New Musical Express

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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cokemachineglow

The tracks feel quickly and easily produced but fucking delicious.

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Dot Music

Cox is evidently a songwriter and sound sculptor of incredible skill and though the inclusion of the two collaborations--both a little too in thrall to their guests perhaps--means Logos lacks the wholly immersive quality of its predecessor, there is little else to contest; truly, this is pop music at its most weird and wonderful.

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Dusted Magazine

Logos opens a portal through which its artist tells us something about who he is, and though this is not everything, it is enough.

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Mojo

The bona fide release is a triumph, there's an understated elegance about Logos, which dabbles in Kraut-and math-rock and slacker-styled electronica. [Nov 2009, p.91]

Prefix Magazine

Logos, while just the second solo album from the frontman for a band of marginal fame, represents the latest and greatest chapter in Cox’s ride to indie stardom.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Only when he retreats to familiar gauzy gurgles (as on the formless opener 'The Light That Failed') does Logos lose focus. Hopefully, Cox will learn to love it here, outside his shell.

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musicOMH.com

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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PopMatters

Though it cedes little of the hazy delivery that made Let the Blind… so compelling, 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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Rolling Stone

Cox's second solo disc as the Atlas Sound brilliantly channels spaced-out folk balladry through hazy chamber pop à la Panda Bear or Stereolab.

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Alternative Press

Fortunately, the androgynous-voiced experimenter went back on threats of scrapping what is by far his most versatile collection. [Nov 2009, p.106]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes

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Dean S. gave it a9:
Very solid album, quick canals in particular is amazing.

Robert P. gave it a10:
I've fallen hard for this one. It's better than Microcastle. Hard to believe, but I'm saying it.

Greg L. gave it a9:
BRADFORD, not Brandon.

Holla Backboy gave it a9:
This is one of the only artists out there that, if they were to die, it would be truly tragic due to the loss of dazzling future works of art.

Johann T gave it an8:
Hey guys ! The name is not Brandon, but Bradford Cox... I disagree with the Guardian : the melodies are much simpler than Animal Collective's, but it's nethertheless a good album, for the homogenic atmosphere it conveys, quite positive (like, after all, with Microcastle), some beautiful melodies (Shelia), and, again, Cox's sensuous voice.

Jack D gave it a9:
A scrapbook of some brilliant and creative songs. Doesn't flow as well Cox's other works, and it's quite short, but it's worth every second. Anyone who was not to fond of 'Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel' can find something to love on 'Logos', which is far more accessible than it's predecessor.

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