Hello Cosmos have released their new album titled ‘Come Out Tonight’ via Cosmic Glue. Spending half a decade between albums can make or break any artist or band. The time alone makes them soft or hard, depending on your tastes and what they did during that time off.
‘Come Out Tonight’ is one of those albums that will be played twenty years from now and heard with the same reverence, relevance, and interest it is generating now, because, it’s all downhill from here. A modern classic with classic twists and rebel angst all wrapped up in distorted guitars and warped beats that make modern music sound mainstream and everything else new sound old and tired.
Enough said.
About Hello Cosmos & ‘Come Out Tonight’
‘Come Out Tonight’ is their first studio album proper in five long years, the songs of ‘Come Out Tonight’ are united by recurrent messages of both urgency and hope, as the world we live in spirals beyond recognition. A record that rallies to reclaim love from the clasps of the corporate advertising machine, and idle mind space from the deathly doom scroll of toxic digital spaces; these unconventional, electrifying, amorphous tracks are intended to invoke visceral feelings of real humanity, communal connection, and the unlimited possibilities of unprogrammed passion.
A giant leap for the post/punk cosmonauts, it takes influence from all corners of the globe with studio recording sessions having taken place in New York City, Los Angeles, Kampala, Leeds, Manchester, and their base at the Welkin Mill in Stockport. Produced by Jamie Lockhert, the band’s new look line up features Isaac “Dobbo” Dobson and Alex Beston (of Vacant Weekend), sax/synth whizz Frankie Pigeon (Dilettante/BC Camplight), and harmonica player Oli Brown (of Herelduke), join longstanding members Ben Robinson (Kendal Calling/bluedot) and brother Simon, plus Angela Chan (Placebo/Lanterns on the Lake).
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 record, front man 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 normalized to stay in, comatose by ultra processed 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).
‘Come Out Tonight’ was produced by Jamie Lockhert, who has produced all of the Hello Cosmos studio records to date, at Greenmount Studios in Leeds.
While it may seem like a eons 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 labors 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.
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https://www.hellocosmos.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDJCV0hW-uH55JxhAuy8BJg
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