Atlas Sound – “Octoberland”

Bradford Cox went off the radar at the dawn of this decade, and some of us have been longing for his return to the spotlight ever since. Slowly but surely, it's been happening. Cox brought back his solo project Atlas Sound last month in his first proper performance in seven years, playing all-new songs at Philadelphia's Making Time ∞ festival. Since then, a collaboration by Cox and his Deerhunter bandmate Lockett Pundt was announced for Knoxville's Big Ears this coming April, and Atlas Sound popped up on the lineup for Salt Lake City's Kilby Block Party for May and Barcelona's Primavera Sound for June.And now, there's a new recording. "Octoberland," the first Atlas Sound song in almost 15 years, is out now. It's one of the new songs Cox debuted at Making Time ∞. The sparse, slow track arrives with a music video directed by Cox. Check it out below.The "Octoberland" lyrics, provided in a press release:Air becomes hollow.And orange flashPale in the moonlightAnd flying fastWitches burningIn vanilla smokeHeritage woundedAnd I am toldThe virus flies every nightGod of deathTo village findWomen and childrenThe vanilla smokeAll is orange flashFrom the brown oaksRub your lesions with this ointmentMade of crushed cicadasFrom two months agoThe air is hollowThe air is hollowNightflightOver Cleveland tonightSteam risesInto hollow airThere’s nothing thereSpirits floating into the nightWill they ever find their wayWill they ever find their waySpirits floating into the nightWill they ever find their way"Octoberland" is out now on 4AD.Javier Morales