Post by Holsety on Sept 23, 2019 0:24:43 GMT
Bradford Cox (May 15, 1982)
Member of: Deerhunter
Vocal Range: E2-F♯5
Bradford Cox is not the 'lead man' of Deerhunter as much as he is an 'agent', but as the primary lead singer and songwriter of the band, it makes sense that he is sometimes labelled as such. He can paint lush, ambient soundscapes with the help of his voice and a loop pedal. On the other hand, he's capable of psychedelic gems culminating in albums like Halcyon Digest. For those trying to place his aesthetic in a place you can understand, you may think of him as a continuation of the path Brian Eno and David Bowie left for us. Over time, however, he has distanced himself from his ambient sound and hazy production, instead letting his surroundings and his mood influence the music he's making. Hs influences have become harder and harder to place over the years, which has helped to establish Deerhunter as a unique and essential indie band. He is who I call a 'tone monster' in my chronology of favorite singers. That is to say, while he's one of those singers who downplays his technical ability, he makes up for whatever he lacks with his incredible tone. Cox is a fan of improvisation, and as such he adds extra notes and jams to live performances, leading to occasional and unexpected bursts of energy on top of his indie aesthetic.
Significant High Notes:
F♯5 ("Death in Midsummer" live Maifeld Derby 2018, "Futurism" live Maifeld Derby 2018)
F5 ("Denim Opera")
E5 ("Pensacola")
E♭5 ("Knife", "Revival" Maifeld Derby 2018)
D5 ("La Luna", "Leather Jacket", "Mona Lisa", "Moon With Cartridge", "Sailing", "Serenity 1919 (Ives)", "Terra Incognita")
C♯5 ("Flagstaff", "He Would Have Laughed" live Best Kept Secret 2018, "Neon Junkyard" live 2014, "Nitebike", "Te Amo")
C5 ("Blue Moon", "I'm So Lonesome (I Could Cry)", "Never Stops", "New Romantic", "Terra Incognita")
B4 ("After Class", "Another Bedroom", "Death in Midsummer" live Maifeld Derby 2018, "Hazel St", "Helicopter", "How Do I Look", "I Can't Take It", "Knife", "Nitebike", "On Guard", "Recent Bedroom", "Revival" live Maifeld Derby 2018, "Sailing", "Scraping Past", "Serenity 1919 (Ives)", "The Shakes", "Shrug-A-Dub", "Snakeskin", "Stained Glass Swan", "Vox Humana")
B♭4 ("The Abandoned Closet", "Amplifiers", "Calvary Scars", "Calvary Scars / Aux. Out", "Child Support", "The Light That Failed", "Quarantined", "Sailing", "Strange Lights", "Washington School")
A4 ("After Class", "Basement Scene", "Bite Marks", "Blue Moon", "Carrion", "Cynics Recourse", "Ex-Prodigy", "Leather and Wood", "Like New", "Microcastle", "On Guard", "Ready, Set, Glow", "Scraping Past", "Snakeskin", "Spring Break", "This Wheel's on Fire (Dylan)", "Wash Off", "Winter Vacation")
G♯4 ("The Abandoned Closet", "Agoraphobia" live Maifeld Derby 2018, "Angel Is Broken", "Another Bedroom", "Ativan", "Atlas Shrugged", "Back to the Middle", "Child Support", Coronado, "Cover Me (Slowly)" studio/live, "Denim Opera", "Earthquake" live 2014, "Fluorescent Grey", "Helicopter", "Lightworks", "Neon Junkyard", "Quarantined", "Recent Bedroom", "Revival", "Shrug-A-Dub", "Take Care", "Te Amo", "Twilight at Carbon Lake", "Wash Off", "Wire Brush Stomp")
G4 ("Adorno", "Attic Lights", "Basement", "Camcorder", "Carrion", "Cryptograms", "How German Is It?", "Intro", "Lake Somerset", "The Light That Failed", "Lightworks", "Microcastle", "Monomania", "New Romantic", "Nocturne", "Octet", "Oh, It's Such a Shame", "On Guard", "River Card", "Small Horror, "Snakeskin", "This Wheel's on Fire (Dylan)", "Twilight at Carbon Lake", "Vox Humana")
F♯4 ("Activa", "Agoraphobia" live Maifeld Derby 2018, "All the Same", "Amplifiers", "Angel Is Broken", "Back to the Middle", "Backspace Century", "Bite Marks", "Bored Dub", "Border Agents", "Calvary Scars", "Calvary Scars LI / Aux. Out", "Change Is Good", "Cold as Ice", "Coronado", "Cover Me (Slowly)" various 2018 live performances "Death Drag", "Denim Opera", "Dr. Glass", "Flagstaff", "Fluorescent Grey", "How German Is It?", "I Can't Take It", "It Rained", "Little Kids", "Mona Lisa", "Monomania", "Neon Junkyard", "Nitebike", "An Orchid", "Punk (La Vie Antérieure)", "Rainwater Cassette Exchange", "Recent Bedroom", "Revival", "Scraping Past", "Sleepwalking", "Small Horror", "Spring Hall Convert", "Stained Glass Swan", "Stationary Blood", "Strange Lights", "Te Amo", "Terra Incognita", "VHS Dream", "Walkabout", "What Happens to People" live Maifeld Derby 2018, "Wild Love", "Winter Vacation")
F4 ("Adorno", "Amplifiers", "Circulation", "Day Out", "Ex-Prodigy", ""I'm So Lonesome (I Could Cry)", "Knife", "Language / Violence", "Leather and Wood", "Leather Jacket II", "Memory Boy", "Microcastle", "My Halo", "No Longer", "Octet", "Quarantined", "Take Care", "Terra Incognita", "Twilight at Carbon Lake", "Washington School")
E4 ("After Class", "All the Same", "Angel Is Broken", "Basement Scene", "Bite Marks", "Blue Agent", "Breaker", "Carrion", "Cold as Ice", "Criminals", "Death Drag", "Death in Midsummer", "Disappearing Ink", "Dream Captain", "Duplex Planet", "Famous Last Words", "Friday Night We Took Acid and Laid on Matt's Bedroom Floor Staring at His Ceiling Fan While His Parents Watched T.V. Downstairs", "Hazel St", "He Would Have Laughed", "Heatherwood", "Helicopter", "Here Come the Trains", "How To Pass the Time", "It Rained", "La Luna", "Leather and Wood", "Like New", "Little Kids", "Neon Junkyard", "Nothing Ever Happened", "An Orchid", "Pensacola", "Ponds", "Rainwater Cassette Exchange", "Quick Canal", "River Card", "Saved by Old Times", "Sheilia", "Spring Hall Convert", "Stained Glass Swan", "Strange Lights", "Slow Swords", "T.H.M.", "Tech School", "Walkabout", "What Happens To People", "Wire Brush Stomp")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("Back To the Middle", "Basement", "Basement Scene", "Blue Agent", "Breaker", "Carrion", "Change Is Good", "Comet 8", "Criminals", "Cynics Recourse", "Dream Color", "Earthquake", "Game of Diamonds", "Green Jacket", "He Would Have Laughed", "Hotel Orlando", "It Rained", "La Luna", "Little Kids", "Never Stops", "Oh, It's Such a Shame", "An Orchid", "Stained Glass Swan", "Terra Incognita", "Vox Celeste", "Willful")
E♭3 ("Activa", "Attic Lights", "Child Support", "Kid Kilmax", "Living My Life", "My Halo", "Oceans", "Sailing", "Strange Parade", "T.H.M.")
D3 ("Backspace Century", "Basement Scene", "Camcorder", "Change Is Good", "Cryptograms", "Day Out", "Death in Midsummer", "Dr. Glass", "Dream Color", "Friday Night We Took Acid and Laid on Matt's Bedroom Floor Staring at His Ceiling Fan While His Parents Watched T.V. Downstairs", "Here Come the Trains", "How to Pass the Time", "It Rained", "Lake Somerset", "Leather and Wood", "The Light That Failed", "Logos", "Microcastle", "No One's Sleeping", "Nothing Ever Happened", "Operation", "Pensacola", "Praying Man", "Tech School", "VHS Dream", "Willful")
C♯3 ("Agoraphobia" various live performances, "Amplifiers", "Atlas Shrugged", "Blue Agent", "Bored Dub", "Border Agents", "Calvary Scars", "Calvary Scars LI / Aux. Out", "Doldrums", "Don't Cry", "Element", "Famous Last Words", "Fluorescent Grey", "Green Glass Bottles", "Here Come the Trains", "How Do I Look?", "Kid Klimax", "Leather Jacket II", "Living My Life", "Memory Boy", "Modern Aquatic Nightsongs", "New Romantic", "Parallax", "Plains", "Punk (La Vie Antérieure)", "Rainwater Cassette Exchange", "The Shakes", "Stained Glass Swan", "Terrarium", "These Were My Walls")
C3 ("Activa", "Camcorder", "Circulation", "Death in Midsummer", "I'm So Lonesome (I Could Cry)", "The Light That Failed", "No Longer")
B2 ("Ativan", "Atlas Shrugged", "Backspace Century", "Bored Dub", "Don't Cry", "Duplex Planet", "Futurism", "Logos", "My Halo", "Nitebike", "An Orchid", "Plains", "Sleepwalking", "Town Center", "Where I Came Home From")
B♭2 ("Agoraphobia" live Maifeld Derby 2018, "Lightworks", "N. Animals")
A2 ("Ativan", "Blue Moon", "Friday Night We Took Acid and Laid on Matt's Bedroom Floor Staring at His Ceiling Fan While His Parents Watched T.V. Downstairs", "Knife", "Revival", "River Card", "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy")
G♯2 ("Lightworks", "Where I Come Home From")
G2 ("Blue Moon", "Crossriver", "Language / Violence", "Leather Jacket II")
F♯2 ("Fluorescent Grey", "Knife", "Lightworks", "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy", "Where I Come Home From")
F2 ("Fluorescent Grey")
E2 ("The Abandoned Closet")
{Questionable Notes}
D6 ("Death Drag"[2])
C♯6 ("Tech School"[2])
A5 ("La Luna"[1])
D2 ("Modern Aquatic Nightsongs"[1])
C2 ("Breaker"[1])
B1 ("Dr. Glass"[1], "Here Come the Trains"[5])
G1 ("Small Horror"[5])
………………
[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
………………………………..D6 ("Death Drag"[2])
C♯6 ("Tech School"[2])
A5 ("La Luna"[1])
D2 ("Modern Aquatic Nightsongs"[1])
C2 ("Breaker"[1])
B1 ("Dr. Glass"[1], "Here Come the Trains"[5])
G1 ("Small Horror"[5])
………………
[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
Blue marks soft falsetto notes.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Underlines mark notes in backing vocals or otherwise obscured in the song mix.
{Album Ranges}
Deerhunter
Turn It Up Fa**** (2005): G2-G4
Cryptograms (2007): D3-G4-B4
Fluorescent Grey (2007): F2-F♯4-A4
Microcastle (2008): C3-G4-C5
Weird Era Cont (2008): B2-F♯4-D5
Rainwater Cassette Exchange (2009): C3-F♯4
Halcyon Digest (2010): A2-G♯4-D5
Monomania (2013): G2-G♯4-E5
Fading Frontier (2015): B2-A4-B4
Double Dream Of Spring (2018): G3-G♯4-F5
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (2019) B2-G4
Atlas Sound (Solo)
Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (2008): A2-A4-B4
Logos (2009): B2-G4-B♭4
Bedroom Databank Vols. 1-4 (2010): G2-G4-D5
Parallax (2011): F♯2-G♯4-D5
Misc:
Camcorder (2007): C3-G4
Weekend EP (2007): A2-E4
Brian Foote EP (2007): F♯2-B4
Atlas Shrugged (2008): B2-G♯4
Bored Dub (2008) B2-F♯4
Another Bedroom EP (2008): E2-G♯4-B4
Two Songs For My Dad EP: A2-F4-C5
Deerhunter
Turn It Up Fa**** (2005): G2-G4
Cryptograms (2007): D3-G4-B4
Fluorescent Grey (2007): F2-F♯4-A4
Microcastle (2008): C3-G4-C5
Weird Era Cont (2008): B2-F♯4-D5
Rainwater Cassette Exchange (2009): C3-F♯4
Halcyon Digest (2010): A2-G♯4-D5
Monomania (2013): G2-G♯4-E5
Fading Frontier (2015): B2-A4-B4
Double Dream Of Spring (2018): G3-G♯4-F5
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (2019) B2-G4
Atlas Sound (Solo)
Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (2008): A2-A4-B4
Logos (2009): B2-G4-B♭4
Bedroom Databank Vols. 1-4 (2010): G2-G4-D5
Parallax (2011): F♯2-G♯4-D5
Misc:
Camcorder (2007): C3-G4
Weekend EP (2007): A2-E4
Brian Foote EP (2007): F♯2-B4
Atlas Shrugged (2008): B2-G♯4
Bored Dub (2008) B2-F♯4
Another Bedroom EP (2008): E2-G♯4-B4
Two Songs For My Dad EP: A2-F4-C5