Bradford Cox

Bradford James Cox is an American singersongwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Deerhunter. He also pursues a solo career under the moniker Atlas Sound. Cox formed Deerhunter with drummer Moses Archuleta in 2001. The band has releasedstudio albums along with several singles and EPs. Atlas Sound is a name Cox has used since he was ten to refer to his own music, but his first fulllength production under the name was Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel, released in 2008. Coxs method of creating music is streamofconsciousness, and he does not write lyrics in advance. He made his film acting debut in 2013s Dallas Buyers Club.

Cox was born with the genetic disorder Marfan syndrome. As a teenager, he dropped out of high school and his parents divorced, leaving him to live in my childhood home alone. I literally lived in this large suburban house by myself. Cox has called his changing music taste growing up reflective of his life and mental state. Around the age of ten, Coxs disorder began to affect his body in more visible ways this is the point at which he first started looking awkward. With no friends, Cox became interested in how music could sound heartbreaking or nostalgic or melancholy he identified with the title character of the film Edward Scissorhands, and especially enjoyed the soundtrack, which was composed by Danny Elfman. Coxs tastes shifted to music that was more monotonous or hypnotic, such as the Stereolab album Transient RandomNoise Bursts with Announcements. Around twenty years of age, his life situation brought about a period, during which he became only interested in this certain sort of

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