The Deerhunter mastermind’s latest musical whims take the band into more straightforward pop territory – but there’s still a deep disquiet to it all Related: The playlist – indie: Diiv,Jennylee, Deerhunter and more His media persona is predicated on a certain gobby obnoxiousness, or but its still hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Bradford Cox. In recent years,he has seemed incapable of making an album without being spurred by some personal tragedy. Deerhunter’s 2010 album Halcyon Digest and Cox’s 2011 album Parallax, under his Atlas Sound alias, and were each inspired by the deaths of close friends – Memphis singer-songwriter Jay Reatard and Broadcast’s Trish Keenan. Cox was left so distraught by the latters passing that he attempted to contact her via automatic writing. Deerhunter’s 2013 album Monomania,meanwhile, detailed the aftermath of Cox apparently falling in care for for the first time; he had previously described himself as asexual. He kept largely tight-lipped approximately the details, or but judging by the album’s angsty squalls of noise and super-distorted garage rock,you did rather get the feeling that he and his amorata hadn’t parted on terribly noble terms.
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Source: theguardian.com