Cold War Kids

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Mulberry Street EP

Track Listing:
1. The Soloist In The Living Room
2. Heavy Boots
3. Quiet, Please!
4. The Wedding
5. In Harmony In Silver
6. Don't Let Your Love Grow Away (from me)
Recorded in April 2005 with Matt Wignal
Artwork by Matt Maust
Label: Monarchy Music Corp
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Cold War Kids recorded three 6 song EPs before releasing "Robbers & Cowards." The first of the three EPs is called "Mulberry Street." It was recorded in a day in M. Wignall's garage/studio for some design job favors from Maust and sixty bucks. In between takes, Wignall would play an album over the speakers, like Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" or Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush," and go on long rants, pointing out sounds and talking about how good these musicians were and how we would be lucky if in ten years we could play a song anywhere near this good. We thought "Who cares! We just want to record our songs for us!" Then he showed us how to record vocals while he went to mow the lawn.

-Nathan Willett (Cold War Kids)

Cold War Kids means International Blues. We began in August '04 with friends, jangly guitar, hand claps, and a Harmony amp in a storage room atop Mulberry Street restaurant in downtown Fullerton, CA. For the first practices, having instruments was secondary to stomping and chanting; Clanging on heat pipes, thumping on plywood walls. Hollering into tape recorders. Slipping and swaying into alleyways and juke joints of yesteryear. Tapping in to the American dustbowl and British maritime. On the restaurants roof the sound and feeling was cultivated and burned, built and hallowed out, painted and stripped to the primer. Almost three years have passed and we haven't let up since the starting gun fired. The album "Robbers & Cowards" was released in the US in October '06 on Downtown and the rest of the world in February '07 on V2. 'Why even have apartments?' We often ask ourselves as we have toured with the vim of a family reunion brawl across the US, UK, Europe, Australia and Japan. Cold War Kids strive to make honest songs about human experience in orchards and hotel rooms, laundromats and churches, sea ports and school halls. We love the songs of Dylan, Nina Simone, and the Velvet Underground and make our own, which we like to think, are pretty original.

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Thank you so much for coming to USD! I was standing in the heat in the very very front and I couldn't believe how good you guys sounded live. I listen to your music in the car, at home, haha. Live was so amazing and it seriously made my day to see you play at my school. You guys are absolutely amazing. Thank thank thank thank you for coming!
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Please come visit us in south Florida!
Aug 29, 11:51 PM

Guys, I'm going to see you tomorrow at vfest! Can you please open up with The Soloist In The Living Room!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! All your songs are awesome but this one just stands out in my mind as something that would be a great opener!
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