Holding onto conversation with
Bradford Cox isn’t easy. I found this out for the first time a while back, prior to
Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (review) being released back in Spring (interview). Part of the problem was that rather than tie his visionary moves with the same bow as his contemporaries, he has the tendency to jump on tangents from discussing his own output to talk up the records that are inspiring him. Water from a stone to some extent, but it’s equally part of the charm of the
Deerhunter lynchpin. That evening he particularly spent the time serving out hyperbole about how hyped he was about hearing the Stereolab and Breeders records he’d managed to get his mitts on, his usual pining after Animal Collective and one particular other: