Sporting vintage wayfarers, Bradford Cox, a.k.a. Atlas Sound took the stage at Broad Street on Saturday, attracting quite a large audience on the lawn for just one guy with a guitar, a harmonica, a distortion pedal and a microphone.

But Cox has the musical chops to legitimize a crowd that large. His experimental ambient side project apart from Deerhunter carries well in the festival setting rather than on his record Logos , because part of the allure of the music is seeing how little Cox actually has to do to make the sounds that he does.

Being such a stark presence in himself, Cox was mesmerizing on stage, whether he was playing his acoustic guitar with the capo way up or riffing on a harmonica.

Go to http://www.myspace.com/atlassound

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