Cosmic Thoughts release new 12” through all good music stockists on May 5th
Full set streaming exclusively on Louderthanwar.com and LP pre-orders go live from Monday 3rd March.
London shows in late March previewing new material.
We are pleased to finally announce the release of a new Cosmic Thoughts recording. Hot Salvation has teamed up with good friends Cult Culture and DLPR to release the new set on beautiful 180g-heavyweight vinyl and high quality download on 5/5/14 from all good independent record stockists.
After putting out the self-recorded ‘No Youth’ live demo last year, the natural progression was to form a complete set around the piece, and capture a full performance for general release. The seven pieces explore the main compositional and aesthetical contexts of that initial track to further extents; The driving, layered and dense post-punk of ‘Decayer,’ offset against the cold, aggressive post-hardcore of ‘Saint Jude’ anchor more abstract ideas on the brooding, hypnotic ‘Ulysses,’ and ‘Apollo’s’ contrasting, thumping art-pop. The beginnings of repeato-instrumental experimentation in ‘Test Dream’ and ‘Old Scratch’ also balance a record that takes strong inspiration from unlimited mid-to-late twentieth century pop music styles without trite “retromania” that has a such strong-hold on current pop genres, and pushes what the band deem simply as their take on ‘punk’ forward, ever forward.
Long-time collaborator Ben Phillips handled all production at Lightship 95 studio in East London, while mastering has been taken care of by hero-namedrop Alan Douches in New York. The labels and band have also managed to keep all production within the UK. Trying to help vinyl production survive in this country has been an important part of the process. Designer Daniel Burrows has imagined the physical record, which has been pressed on high quality 180g vinyl, with matt-reverse board printing for the incredible sleeve.
Safe to say we’re all pretty excited. The record is the true culmination of the last 4 years work.
Nead over to louderthanwar.com now to stream the entire record, and to hotsalvation.bigcartel.com to order the LP now.
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