Bradford Cox Returns With Eight New Atlas Sound Songs

Bradford Cox brought his Atlas Sound project back to the stage after seven years and presented eight new songs during the performance. Cox made his return on September 20 at the Making Time festival in Philadelphia. He performed solo for approximately half an hour in the festival's Transcendental Stage section.

The performance consisted entirely of previously unheard material, with all eight songs played for the first time. At the end of the concert, Cox distributed setlists and lyric sheets for the new songs to the audience and signed them for fans. The show was the first announced Atlas Sound concert since Cox performed under the Atlas Sound name at Desert Daze in 2019.

Atlas Sound and Deerhunter have been on unannounced hiatuses since 2019. Atlas Sound's most recent studio album remains 2011's Parallax. Deerhunter released Monomania in 2013 and Fading Frontier in 2015. Deerhunter's eighth and most recent album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, was released in 2019.