did everyone recover from their first sunday without a song this week? i hope so, because thats the way things are gonna be around here from now on, so get used to it. todays song is maybe the timeliest of any song ive posted so far because it broke throughout the blogosphere just last week. but since its now a week later, everyones pretty much heard it anyway. the song is the newest offering from atlas sound, the solo project of perpetually skinny bradford cox, probably best known for his band deerhunter. he collaborates with noah lennox, aka panda bear, whos also a member of animal collective. i actually saw both of these guys at 2008 pitchfork fest (it always comes back to pfork fest, doesnt it?). panda bear was of course playing with saturday headliners animal collective, and bradford cox was part of the “make some shit up to play to keep the crowd pacified until cut copy makes an appearance since they are running really late” crew . it was a very…interesting..performance, but i gave him the benefit of the doubt because he was put in the precarious situation of improvising entertainment in light of an unavoidable delay. and i like deerhunter.

why do i like this song? probably because it sounds like exactly what you think a collaboration between atlas sound and panda bear would sound like. youve got all the poppy blips and beeps of atlas sound, and youve got all the reverb of panda bear. the first time i heard this track it didnt really do much for me, but after giving it a few more listens im pretty happy with it. happy enough that it makes the cut into playlist of songs on my ipod that i really like. without further ado, i present to you “walkabout”, which is only about a week behind the times in terms of the blogosphere, so thats not too bad when you think about it.

atlas sound w/ noah lennox – walkabout