This is miles and miles beyond even the skinniest trail of a doubt one of the best stripped down, acoustic live performances I've seen in a good while. One guy, a guitar, a harmonica, and his loop pedals in a spooky, depopulated church (when aren't churches spooky?). That this "one guy" just so happens to be Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and, as seen here, Atlas Sound might be an unfair advantage to that aforementioned title simply due to the guy's overall consistent musicianship and flair. Pitchfork just dropped another Atlas Sound track from this "Live at the Cemetary Gates" series, the soft and moving "Sheila." As with most things Bradford Cox puts together, it's highly powerful and worth checking out. What makes Cox and company doubly more interesting, at least to me, is he's said before that they were influenced by Dennis Cooper, which may in and of itself be somewhat trivial to the casual listener but hearing how musicians have dug up influences through literary works is a major fascination of mine, maybe because of the way it mirrors the ways in which I find influences for my writing in music and visual art. There's no doubt in my mind that this is one of the preeminent artists of our time and to watch him work is pure, privileged joy.
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