HELLO COSMOS - Release frenetic single "Gig Buddies"
HELLO COSMOS
RELEASE FRENETIC NEW TRACK:
“GIG BUDDIES” FORTHCOMING SECOND ALBUM:
‘COME OUT TONIGHT’ OUT 5 DECEMBER, VIA COSMIC GLUE
HELLO COSMOS are back with the frenzied new single: “Gig Buddies”.
WATCH VIDEO HERE || SPOTIFY HERE
“Rewrite the script!” exhales frontman Ben Robinson in the dying seconds of this maelstrom of a track. And if “Gig Buddies” is anything to go by, Hello Cosmos are on a mission to do just that.
“Experience is twisting, contorting and expanding!” he fires-up over a melee of barbwire guitars, disfigured harmonicas, and thunderous John Bonham-esque drums.
With more key changes than a piano tumbling down a cliff, “Gig Buddies” is what happens when pure upset gets turned into energy. Digging into the track, Robinson says:
“[Gig Buddies is about…] Tunneling the frustrations of making music in the modern era of performative social media, the never ending rehashes of the same songs, beats and loops, the dumbing down of music culture via algorithms. That mate full of white lines ranting in your ear while you're trying to watch a gig. Just your average days morbid thoughts from most musicians and music lovers…. On the flip side it's expressing a love for the noise, confusion and pull of going to a live show with your mates, the otherworldly nature of huge speakers, that mid point at a show where the collective conciseness of the crowd are in sync with the band and the spirit of the show enters the room. Plus how losing yourself is sometimes the best way to find yourself on the other side of the night.”
One of the band’s heaviest, most disorientating, and electrifying outings to date, “Gig Buddies” finds Hello Cosmos in vivacious form. It follows the recent track “Grind Into The Shrine” released over the summer, with both tracks confirmed to appear on the band’s second official studio album…
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Celebrating 10 years as a recording project, HELLO COSMOS have burst back into being with a flurry of new activity. Alongside new shows, sessions, and singles, the band are also preparing ‘Come Out Tonight’, a brand new album for release on 5 December.
Confirmed to feature over a long list of collaborators, the album takes influence from all corners of the globe with its studio recording sessions taking place in New York City, Los Angeles, Kampala, Leeds, Stockport and Manchester. Produced by Jamie Lockhert at Greenmount Studios in Leeds, who has produced all of their studio records to date, it arrives as Hello Cosmos’ first studio album proper in over 5 years, following their acclaimed debut ‘Dream Harder’ in 2020. Of the upcoming record, frontman Ben Robinson says:
“A lot of the upcoming record is about finding the strength to switch off digital screens and go out and live. It’s becoming more and more normalised to stay in, comatosed by ultraprocessed food and algorithms firing shallow dopamine hits, keeping us all hooked on a short wavelength, gradually becoming dumber, hopeless and unhealthy… We all need to wake each other up, get off the cool aid of digital apps, social media and algorithmic scrolling.”
Reappearing with a new look line-up, Hello Cosmos currently feature leader and creative force Ben Robinson (co-founder of Kendal Calling & bluedot) and his brother Simon (drums), and strings/synth maestro Angela Chan (Placebo / Lanterns on the Lake), performing alongside bassist/percussionist Isaac Dobson (Dobbo) and guitarist Alex Beston of Vacant Weekend, sax/synth whizz Frankie Pigeon (Dilettante/BC Camplight), and harmonica player Oli Brown (of Herelduke, who also notably produced Hello Cosmos’ ‘Golden Dirt’ mixtape).
While it may seem like aeons that the band have been away, behind the scenes Hello Cosmos have been fervently building their own studio, creative space & label: Cosmic Glue. With the fruits of their labours ripe and ready for revelation, new album ‘Come Out Tonight’ is just the beginning. With two new records and a blissed-out “comedown album” also due for release in the imminent future, an intrepid new chapter for Hello Cosmos is upon us. Hold tight.
HELLO COSMOS - NEW SINGLE: “GIG BUDDIES” - OUT NOW, VIA COSMIC GLUE
WATCH VIDEO HERE || SPOTIFY HERE
NEW ALBUM: ‘COME OUT TONIGHT’ - OUT 5 DECEMBER
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