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February 14, 2011 9:00 AM

Rejoice! Bradford Cox (of Atlas Sound) has released not one, but four albums for free download.
Bedroom Databank vol 1 + Bedroom Databank vol 2 + Bedroom Databank vol 3 + Bedroom Databank vol 4
posted by dunkadunc (16 comments total)

These were all actually released months ago, though, right? According to his blog?
posted by Windigo at 9:03 AM on February 14, 2011

Yes, but they haven't been linked here, a lot of people on here probably don't know about them, and they're good.
posted by dunkadunc at 9:05 AM on February 14, 2011

Yeah, this is really old. Sony even had them taken down at one point, then recanted because they had no rights to it.

That said, this hasn't yet been posted here.
posted by Threeway Handshake at 9:05 AM on February 14, 2011

An album that was released 3 months ago is not "really old" unless you're at this very moment working in a hallucinatory record store and your job is to yell at dumb squares.
posted by swift at 9:14 AM on February 14, 2011 [7 favorites]

Your favorite band etc. Enough already.
posted by adamvasco at 9:19 AM on February 14, 2011

I think it's that there's been three months to make a better post.
posted by iamkimiam at 9:23 AM on February 14, 2011

Your favorite band etc. Enough already.

So you're complaining about FREE music? WTF? Pay no mind, OP, I appreciate finding out about FREE music that I might like. Jeez...
posted by dbiedny at 9:25 AM on February 14, 2011

Thanks i like it.
posted by orme at 9:38 AM on February 14, 2011

An album that was released 3 months ago is not "really old"

Hey guys, did you hear they caught Sadaam?
posted by Threeway Handshake at 9:41 AM on February 14, 2011

Thanks for posting this.
posted by timshel at 9:44 AM on February 14, 2011

Somebody call an editor.
posted by electricsandwich138 at 10:03 AM on February 14, 2011

Sonic preview: Mona Lisa
posted by artof.mulata at 11:02 AM on February 14, 2011

So, you guys knew all about this, but didn't tell the rest of us for three whole months?
posted by robotot at 1:05 PM on February 14, 2011

Cox's other band, Deerhunter, is probably somewhat better known than Atlas Sound. Or at least I thought until reading this post, and now I'm entirely unsure. It's very difficult to extrapolate fame from a collection of posts on internet sites.

I read about these as they were coming out, but somehow never bothered to download them. Thanks for the reminder!
posted by Schismatic at 1:31 PM on February 14, 2011

It's weird to me just how successful the Bradford Cox/Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/others I'm sure group has become.

Just before Cryptograms came out my friend and I hired Deerhunter to play a frat party for $200 + 12 pack of Budweiser Select. Bradford seemed like a nice guy, though he didn't seem too excited when my friend, a guitarist, wanted to play with him. Cox obliged by setting off a loop that went for about 35 minutes consisting of some tapping on a microphone, about 3 seconds of my friends guitar sound, and Bradford saying "Jacking off Chuck Berry."

The only other thing I remember is a girl at the party telling the band that if they would just play some Foo Fighters covers that she would flash them.

Suffice it to say, I'm pretty sure no one enjoyed that party too much.
posted by goHermGO at 4:12 PM on February 14, 2011 [4 favorites]

Remember people. Metafilter isn't a news site. It's a collective blog for finding the best of the web, whether old or new.

Thanks for posting these.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 3:51 AM on February 15, 2011