Another beautiful Review

http://pixelhorse.blogspot.com/2009/12/mp3-kid-counselor-white-fields-for-sean.html

Top 10 tracks of 2009

1. Walkabout - Atlas Sound

2. Daydream - Beach Fossils

3. So insane - Discovery

4. Lovers' Carvings - Bibio

5. Sound guardians - Lightning Bolt

6. Casa Bey - Mos Def

7. Existence - Ra Cailum

8. Phones dont feud - Holiday Shores

9. Pon de floor - Major Lazer

10. Feel it all around - Washed Out

hello

Christmas Noise Compilation Piece is Up!

http://kidcounselor.bandcamp.com/

now

lining up a festival of the youth of stl music. HELL YES.

new christmas noise (more like ambient) song to be put out on a compilation.

New EP by Jan 5th.

12/6/09

The cover show went amazingly. I met new people in my own house and rocked the house with the new Light Graffiti project. Everyone who performed was great. Just a good freaking night.

on to new heights.

Atlas Sound "Logos" Review

I did this for english class, so i thought i would share.

Atlas Sound “Logos”

They say anything that’s good feels natural. The music seem to flow flawlessly and smooth with no stops along the way. The message and thoughts are felt and recognized by other passengers on this ride of an album. While the audience sits and enjoys, they must wonder where they are going. Well, you might want to meet the conductor, Atlas Sound, the solo moniker of Bradford Cox. While Bradford also fronts Atlanta based ambient pop band Deerhunter, he also seems to be the socialite of the indie rock world. There never seems to be a band or artist he doesn’t know personally. While he is an very extroverted and joyful man, he has a troubled past riddled with disease, divorce and the death of loved ones. While his first solo full length work, Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel, felt like a bedroom confessional of his life thus far, Logos is more of a celebration of an album, rarely straying into any self-reflective waves of ambient distortion. This is his pop album; Simply sweet, yet intelligent and mature.

The album starts off with “The Light That Failed,” a more spacey and experimental song sounding like more of a keystone bridging the sound of Let the Blind and Logos. After this introduction song of sorts, we are hit with the new and fresh sound, a more acoustic and orchestrated approach. “An Orchid” is a whispered song that questions “Will you provide?” We are then returned to the world of normal voiced conversation with a blistering guitar line that sums this cave of a song, with sound bouncing all over with a very natural and cold feeling.

Quickly, the listener is faded into the album’s single “Walkabout.” This song conquers so many different examples of the idea of a “summer anthem”: A catchy hook, a halfway danceable beat, nostalgic chords and guest vocals lent by Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective. The repeating sample from “What Am I Going to Do?” by The Dovers, adds a simple, child-like ease to the glitchy, ambient wall of sound sequences between the verses.

The next two tracks “Criminals” and “Attic Lights” show us the amount of detail Cox can fill into just one song. “Criminals” sounds almost like a Grizzly Bear B-side towards the center of the song flowing all sorts of quality of recording and a total blended of numerous instruments. The almost-spoken word lyrics of “Attic Lights” gives the first two thirds of this song feel like a stream of consciousness before heading out the door. The drums come in as multiple layers of guitar fall to the ground, to then only be picked up by spacey violins flying over head like birds. The end result brings us right back to the beginning, except with a sense of something learned and some fooling around on the guitar.

Instantly, we are sent to the album’s second single and most catchy track, “Shelia.” Cox, an open homosexual, tells of how “Shelia” will “be his wife” and “share his light.” He also tells of how they will “grow old” and “bury themselves” when they die. “Cuz no one wants to die alone,” is the repeated refrain over this solemn chorus, only to be picked up again by the song’s intro and guitar chords. The simplicity of common verse then chorus framing of this song, make his message easier to grasp. The slow fadeout of this song is to act a minor break in the action almost like an intermission. We have now entered the more electronic side of the album.

We slowly fade into the 8-minute epic “Quick Canal.” With guest vocals lent by Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, makes this otherwise repetition song into a feed-back infused lullaby. Sadier is noted having recorded the vocals to the song back stage while on tour with Cox, though this never shows in any sonic way throughout the tune. We are brought back awake by a simple waltz tune titled “My Halo.” This song resembles the last shout out and total transfer from the more orchestrated part of the first half of the album. We now have three tracks left: “Kid Klimax”, “Washington School”, and title track “Logos.” “Klimax” is a bouncy song traveling in and out of schizophrenic and twitchy beeps and clicks while a wall of guitar shows through the digital sound like the sun over a field. While seeing Atlas Sound perform at Washington University over the summer, the concert attendee thought it would be suiting to play the song of nearly the same title. (He later played the song with the same reasoning.) This song sounds like a B-side of his former work Let the Blind; with looped piano that sounds like its being played through a gramophone speaker, fades right into a reverb heavy sound scape melody based almost entirely of his voice, besides the constant computerized bass tones giving the song a constant rhythm.

Unlike most albums, we are not met with the last emotional kick that most artists try to put across with the last song on the album. Rather, we finish the album with the final movement of the electronic trilogy of sorts and title track, “Logos.” The track seems to sum up and bring out every instrument and effect used on the album out on stage for a final bow. With the most funky of drum pieces the album has to offer, both acoustic guitar and electric guitar along with the bass bring this album to a subtle close. With the distorted and nearly unclear vocals spiraled together with some modular synth keyboard tones put the last little colorful bow on the gift of musical results.

Logos may not be the most important and ground breaking album, but it’s incredibly solid. It has a personality to match that feeling and isn’t ashamed of it, but rather flaunts it. This is the work of an artist with no other mission except to give a little treat to keep you listening; With results like this, fans will be coming back for more every time.

life on mars

okay, okay. here are some realizations.

lady gaga is actually kinda cool. sorry i know, but she seems to be pretty legit.

Life is never going to be as planned. EVER. so you might as well sit tight and see what happens.

and this song this is incredible: