| Cosmonauts, The / Persona Non Grata |
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| Album: | Persona Non Grata | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Cosmonauts, The | Added: | Oct 2013 | |
| Label: | Burger Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-10-24 | Pull Date: | 2013-12-26 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 15 | Dec 8 | Dec 1 | Nov 24 | Nov 17 | Nov 10 | Nov 3 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 09, 2017: | moodswings Shaker | 4. | Dec 28, 2013: | Meow Sweet Talk | |
| 2. | Jan 02, 2014: | KZSU Top 100 of 2013 Pure Posture | 5. | Dec 14, 2013: | Space House Dirty Harry | |
| 3. | Jan 01, 2014: | Meow Dirty Harry | 6. | Dec 12, 2013: | The Sunset Life Dirty Harry |
| Album Review |
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| awyeh Reviewed 2013-10-24 | ||
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Slow but upbeat, fuzzy, jangly, poppy, psych from Orange County on Burger Records. Bright if occasionally detached music over reverbed darker male vox; a lot druggier, hazier, plodding than much of the Bay Area psych (at least the poppy stuff) we've gotten lately. Blissed out and accented by feedback at all the right places; much of the band's press refers to their use of VU-style droning guitars. Lyrics dark, lots of references to young peoples' ages, frustrations, bad fates. RIYL Royal Baths, Sic Alps, Crystal Stilts, Spacemen 3, Blasted Canyons, Coke Weed *1 (3:34) Chiming guitars, head-nodding beat, frustrated tone 2 (6:29) Noisy guit open, transitions into slow pounding beat with crashes of stony guitar. Sun-drenched falsetto backing "oo"s for the final couple minutes 3 (3:30) Jangling guitar, handclaps, almost reverbed out vox about what happens to girls on the bad part of town 4 (6:38) A touch of desert twang and constant tambourine complement sludgey pace and feel very well *5 (3:49) FCC FUCK Punchy rhythm section, noisy searing guitars 6 (4:52) Sparkling guitars shimmer around low vox and laid back rhythm *7 (3:16) Upbeat driving rocker, one guitar jangles and another is distorted beyond recognition, vox unintelligible; play loud *8 (6:26) 45 seconds of an almost trip-hop rhythm open, before launching into another sunny, stony scorcher; some catchy licks 9 (5:05) Countrified space guitar joins the deliberate plod you've come to expect 10 (4:06) Slightly harsh droning shoegaze fuzz over what's got to be a drum machine and buried nasally spoke-song vox; repetitive, totally different from the other tracks but pretty great in its own right | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Shaker | 6. | Vanilla | |||
| 2. | Wear Your Hair Like A Weapon | 7. | Dirty Harry | |||
| 3. | Sweet Talk | 8. | Pure Posture | |||
| 4. | My Alba | 9. | Summertime Blue | |||
| 5. | What Me Worry? | 10. | I'm So Bored With You |