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So Cow "Best Vacation Ever"
Brian comes from Galway, Ireland. Brian lives in Seoul, South Korea. These songs are mainly very short and sound quite
distinctive in a good ole' fashioned 4 track bedroom punk pop (with a twist) kind-of-a-way. If you can imagine a halfway
point on a bridge between Boyracer and Pumice, this might just be it looser than one; tighter than the other. There's some
nice off key 'cello, wonky piano and what has to be a homage to Calvin Johnson too. Mmmm smiles all round.
This nine track ep is released on the new Irish label Rusted Rail, features a selection of lo-fi home recordings sounding
a bit like the bedroom style little brothers of Sebadoh blended with the strange lo-fi folk sounds of the likes of Future
Pilot a.k.a. and the weird outsider sounds of Daniel Johnston, the album was recorded in South Korea and county Galway,
a mix of mellow psychedelic folk sounds and stop/start indie rock.
An outlier in the equation, sonically and spatially (the man lives in Seoul), So Cow plays a variety of songs which do not
intuit a single sound. The guy's all over the place, touching on a different landmark with each song in the way only 4-track
freedom allows: there's strolling piano sing-along in "Introduction", synth-pop in "Sang Mi & Yu Mi", a nice guitar-ballad in
"The Apologist". Influence is evident as well: "Tillage" sounds like old Destroyer, "Oh For Fuck's Sake" maybe a cheeky Rob Crow
circa Heavy Vegetable/Thingy, and "Bat Toes" something Calvin Johnson. In all, an unexpected trip through the last decade of indie
music by someone with plenty of songs in his head. |