Cool Sounds 'Bugs Sleeping' Double EP (featuring the BUG0BEAT EP and Sleepers EP) - Ltd Press *SIGNED
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Cool Sounds 'Bugs Sleeping' Double EP (featuring the BUG0BEAT EP and Sleepers EP) - Limited Pressing *SIGNED
Release Date: 22/03/2024
Label : Independant
Format: Vinyl (Ltd to 200 copies pressed)
Cat# BUG55
Melbourne’s Cool Sounds, aka pop polymath Danis Lacey, returns with a new EP 'BUG0BEAT', the first new music since 2022 album 'Like That'. Like That supercharged Cool Sounds’ usual jangle-pop sparkle with a disco-glam stomp, and saw Cool Sounds get added to national radio in France and Spain, featured in a big US public service ad, and take off on a UK/Europe tour. At home they were playlisted on Double J and had feature albums from RRR and 2SER. Now with Bug0Beat, Cool Sounds head further into oddball funk-damaged pop, presenting a six track EP with an unusual origin story. Dainis says – “Me and my friend Dylan Young (Way Dynamic) recorded this collection of songs in an old barn filled with vintage recording equipment. It was an unusual place to record songs I had written on the computer, filled with samples, synthesisers and processed sounds. We painstakingly recreated the demos with organic instruments. Suddenly decisions that once seemed nonchalant, like flicking through a sample library and changing drum sounds mid song, meant afternoons of pulling new drum kits out of storage or exploring the barn for new ways to use instruments.” Somehow this recording process got Dainis thinking about insects, and the idea of Bug0Beat was conceived. “This process of making the digital feel organic made us think of bugs, creatures that quietly inhabit the spaces around us,” he says. “We imagined bugs dancing to our grooves and landed on the phrase BUG0BEAT when visitors asked what type of music we were making.” Cool Sounds have now released five albums, moving deftly through indie-rock, slick 80s pop and wistful alt-country, with a lightness of touch that disguises Lacey’s sardonic, perceptive songwriting. 2019’s Cactus Country and 2021 EP Sleepers were both nominated for AIR Awards. BUG0BEAT is released as a six song digital EP on March 1, 2024.
To celebrate, Cool Sounds are releasing a very limited run double EP vinyl titled 'Bugs Sleeping', featuring the new EP BUG0BEAT and their 2020 EP 'Sleepers'. Sleepers, influenced by the likes of David Berman and Cat Power was "Written about friends past and present, close and far, Sleepers is a hazy account of companionship. Themes of comfort, history, loyalty and consolation run throughout. This continues into the music which includes guest appearances from long time collaborators and friends. I wanted to create something comforting, relaxing and meditative" according to Dainis.
The Bugs Sleeping EP is available online via Jet Black Cat Music.