For months now, many of us have been enjoying Deerhunter's forthcoming album, Microcastle. Due October 28 on Kranky Records, the album was leaked nearly five months before the release date. However, it only got worse for the band and frontman Bradford Cox when unmastered versions of both his upcoming solo album and what appeared to be another album from Deerhunter were leaked accidentally by Bradford himself this past Saturday.
For those of you who unfamiliar with the Deerhunter blog, Bradford often provides free downloads of tracks and EPs from his solo project Atlas Sound. While posting a link to a new Virtual 7", Cox instead unknowingly posted a link to a page with all of his Mediafire uploads, which included unmastered versions of both a new Deerhunter album (not Microcastle) and an upcoming solo album.
After realizing the mistake, the link was fixed, but by that time, the albums were already widespread. What ensued were several angry posts directed at bloggers and forum-posters. One of the more unsettling comments made: "It's stuff like this that made Jeff Mangum stop Neutral Milk Hotel."
Shortly afterward, Bradford put up a second, presumably more recent version of the Atlas Sound album, titled Logos, as a free download and claimed that he was abandoning that project and starting from scratch. But he soon replaced the post, removed the link, and claimed that he would resume work on the project regardless of the leak.
So what's up with that Deerhunter album? Bradford left a comment on one of the posts claiming that it was a surprise LP titled Weird Era Cont. to be released with Microcastle as a double LP. The title can also be seen on newer versions of the Microcastle artwork.
Total bummer, but don't let it hold you back Bradford.
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