“In a debut EP that stands eight minutes long, every song cracks its whip at two minutes. That’s enough time to show off the want and the love to pick up on known grind-horror blueprints…”
Author: RatsontheRun
“Discordant pop and proto-punk pleasures, new romantic inflections with post-punk’s detachment, Tired Cossack makes music that’s as charmingly jarring as it neatly steeped in nostalgia…”
So many great tracks picked for your listening pleasure, all the highlights of this month’s discoveries…
“As raucous as Raconteurs, as brooding as Mary Chain, and as gnarly as The Amazons too. With all this flying by in just over three minutes, ‘Caramel’ is tough slice of cool…”
“The Burial and Crack Cloud-like structure of verses, the ease of the sounds that slide by. There’s a movement and freedom that riffs and reflects on the subjects of not having either…”
“Riding high on the sweet indie kicks of Dolly Mixture, St Etienne and Lucky Soul, Jody and The Jerms take that Cherry Red sugar and produce something slick and endearing…”
“With every single released, we get closer and closer to that scrappy and idiosyncratic alchemy that Brix Smith has always exuded…”
“Consider this an introduction, the rest a warm-glow surprise, it’s a joy to unpick from these clean bedroom roots all the way up to Elliot Smith happy…”
“There’s a newness, a carelessness, a free-wheeling nonchalance, there’s a touch of a proto-punk attitude…”
“There’s a myth that a January is musically dead. Let me tell you straight that myth aint true…”
Rats on the Run 