Last year, Bradford Cox, frontman for Atlanta trance-rockers Deerhunter, became a victim of hackers when his unfinished record was leaked onto the Internet. He was so miffed he almost scrapped it, and it's lucky for us he didn't. Cox's second solo disc as the Atlas Sound brilliantly channels spaced-out folk balladry through hazy chamber pop à la Panda Bear or Stereolab (said Bear and the Lab's Laetitia Sadier both add vocals). Cox's drone-weaves have a catchall quality — there's West African guitar on "Criminals" and doo-wop on "My Halo." But an innate tunefulness turns soundscapes into songs that stick; the marriage-proposal/suicide-pact "Shelia" is a Romeo and Juliet fantasy in the finest "Don't Fear the Reaper" tradition.