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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

Bradford Cox

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Athens
Georgia
Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.
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You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird because I started out being known more for ambient things and ambiguous music, but what's experimental for me is the more traditional structure. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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