ATLAS SOUND Logos (2009 UK 11-track CD album - Following the release of Deerhunter's 'Microcastle' last year, the Atlanta, Georgia group's lynchpin Bradford Cox returns to his solo guise, Atlas Sound, for another round of ethereal pop genius with 2nd album, 'Logos'. Whilst its predecessor ['Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel'] was a record of fragile beauty and acute experimentalism in comparison to the often volatile bluster of Deerhunter, 'Logos' has a far more rooted pop sensibility. At its heart is 'Walkabout', a collaboration between Cox and Noah Lennox [Panda Bear] put together whilst he was on tour with Animal Collective in Europe. Combining their love for tape loops and doo-wop, the single lifts the hook from The Dovers' classic 1966 garage track 'What Am I Going To Do?' to form a glorious summertime jam. Elsewhere Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier also appears [an artist who also toured with Bradford last year], she lends her vocals to the epic ambient motorik number, 'Quick Canal').