Atlas Sound – Parallax (sealed UK import)

Welcome to Parallax, the 3rd long player from Atlas Sound, the ever expansive solo project from Bradford Cox of Deerhunter. Atlas Sound is not a “side-project” but rather a fully fleshed musical landscape chock-full of pop chronicles culled from sci-fi fever dreams and mid century rock.

Parallax received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82, based on 34 reviews, indicating “Universal acclaim”.Allmusic writer Heather Phares awarded the album a grade of four stars out of five, writing: “It’s a quietly satisfying album with a determined fragility that makes it all the more moving.”  Rolling Stone gave the album three-and-half-stars out of five and noted: “Cox values songwriting ahead of texture these days, and the effort is paying off.” The A.V. Club‘s David Greenwald praised the album’s more accessible sound, writing, “It’s a brilliant feat: to make a record about distance, Cox has written the most effortlessly approachable music of his career. Sealed in Mint condition.