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Limited first indie store-only pressing of 400 on heavyweight pink vinyl. Sleeve has thick, reverse-board print
Hot Salvation and The Audacious Art Experiment, once again team up to bring you the 4th LP from Leeds New-Wave underground mainstays COWTOWN. PARANORMAL ROMANCE follows on from 2013s incredible DUDES VS BAD DUDES.
Produced by Matthew Johnson (Hookworms vocalist)
Mastered by the singer of Forward Russia Tom Woodhead.
Artwork by Hookworms guitarist/artist in resident Jonathan Wilkinson
Singer Jonathan Nash takes time away from full time position as Hookworms drummer to work on this, his longer running project.
Full US tour with Deerhoof booked for Summer 2016
Formed in Leeds 12 years ago, but like Gang Of Four, born in a variety of other places, Cowtown are made up by David Michael Shields (drums), Hilary Knott (keybass/vocals) and Jonathan Nash (guitar/vocals) and play econo, dynamic, over-stimulated rock music that embraces a heavily abridged history of rock n roll. Serious about fun, the band are a firm favourite of BBC 6 DJ Mark Riley, performing music with an emphasis on positive expression and confronting collective anxieties, creating live shows that focus on what they enjoy and discarding the rest.
Picking up from 2013s Dudes Vs. Bad Dudes (released by TAAE and the bands own label City Hands) their latest offering is wildly economic, clocking in at 23 mins across 12 tracks. Drawing influences from bands like The Coneheads, Devo, The Bangles and The Breeders, as well as films such as Teen Wolf and Ghostbusters, songs are later distilled into their absolute fundamentals. Its not about what they want but what they need, with the delivery being as urgent and tightly wound as possible.
Paranormal Romance was recorded amidst the floods that swept through the city last winter by Matthew Johnson (Hookworms/Suburban Home) at the bands practice space, Tranquility Base and later mastered by Tom Woodhead (Forward Russia) with artwork by fellow Hookworms pal Jonathan Wilkinson a.k.a Idiots Pasture. The album encompasses the centralised DIY affair that Cowtown have come to epitomise as one of the longest running bands to come from the LS6 area. Jamming econo, recording econo and propelling themselves econo.
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