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.
Latest bulletin 12.21.09
Cold War Kids Behave Yourself EP Out Today!
Long Beach California native rock/soul band Cold War Kids has just...
Long Beach California native rock/soul band Cold War Kids has just released the brand new 4-song Behave Yourself EP today, available exclusively on iTunes before a Jan 19th physical release. Frontman Nathan Willet explains that the EP "...is a form that makes a lot of sense to us. It's a fun, more frivolous way of putting music out." Get your copy today and read Billboard.com's in-depth feature on Cold War Kids here