Music Issue Podcasts: Deerhunter
May 7th, 2007 by Rodney Carmichael in Atlanta, MusicBradford Cox of the band Deerhunter
Bradford Cox is a natural when it comes to making a spectacle of himself. He provokes the most perverse reactions from audiences without even trying. Blame it on his body. The 6-foot-4 lead singer for Deerhunter is almost too skinny for words. But that doesn’t stop people from spewing them in his direction.
“Grotesque.”
“Hideous.”
“Freak.”
Ugly words like these pop up in the band’s MySpace inbox and on various music blogs all the time. But in the context of this conversation, Cox flips the insults, using them in kind to describe his taunters. That does little, however, to resolve his own conflicted feelings regarding his self-image.
“I hate my body just as much as everybody else comments on it or hates it, you know,” admits Cox. “I mean, I think most people [hate their bodies].”
But most people are not the frontman for Atlanta’s current “it” band. While Deerhunter has garnered plenty of positive ink from this publication and many others over the past year for breaking boundaries with its experimental blend of electronic psych rock (featured on the full-length Cryptograms and the Fluorescent Grey EP), Cox has garnered the band nearly as much attention by simply showing up for gigs and showing out.
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