by teepoo

Unlike the previous Cobra and Vulture track that was posted, this one has vocals that are significantly clearer. It’s almost like they moved out of the garage. This one is just simply tribal-like percussion and vocals. It’s a different kind of stripped down. No guitars If you haven’t already you can grab their album Seer for free on Bandcamp.
Cobra and Culture- Station Agent of Change
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by teepoo

Time for another weekly top 10! Here’s your most visited single-song posts of this week. A ton of new and some really random old old tracks. You guys really do some strange digging sometimes.

by nashawa

Cobra and Vulture is an interesting mix of 60s psych-garage guitar tone and vocals reminiscent of a band I’ve never heard but still feel familiar and comfortable with. I doubt that makes sense. It’s my first day. Give me a break.

I’m normally not a fan of purposely lo-fi recordings, mainly because they almost always just sound like someone is using the cliched “I’m singing through a telephone/bullhorn” shtick or they’re recordings that WANTED ever-so-badly to be hi-fi in the beginning, but while trying to build the impenetrable bastions necessary in a clean, spotlessly produced pop record, it’s clear the band ran out of bricks early on and opted out for a bouncy castle instead. There’s a saying in my family that nothing breaks a fall off a wall like its inflatable counterpart. My family is weird and likes egregious metaphors (oh look! A music review that’s more about the writer than the band! Someone get Pitchfork on the line, I’ve got a resume to submit and an ego to stroke).

While my motion sickness often yearns for at least a semi-stable rampart more than it does the nausea factory that is the hot, stinky room of brightly coloured polyplastic/rubber composites we call a bouncy castle, sometimes you’ve got to stop being such a cynical jerk and just bounce around til you puke.

This band is in that category. Sort of.

They mix all the fun of a “lolz, at least they’re fun :P” lo-fi band with something special; something of merit, something that doesn’t make me want to crawl back into my shell of self-righteousness. They have interesting melodies and simple-but-not-stupid progressions and just the right amount of repetition to keep everyone happy. Simply put: Cobra and Vulture is a lo-fi pseudo-garage indie pop band that anti-hipster elitists (meta-hipsters?) should have a really hard time thumbing their collective nose at.

I know I did.

Grab the album Seer Free on Bandcamp.
Cobra and Vulture- Future Tension
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