COSSE Announce March 2024 UK Tour Date
COSSE Announce March 2024 UK Tour Dates
Tickets on sale now - https://linktr.ee/COSSE
French Post-Noise Quartet Reveal AI-Inspired Video For Album Track ‘Mind Facilities’
Watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0CmpUtKJY
Debut Album It Turns Pale Out Now via NMAS
Stream and share - https://linktr.ee/ItTurnsPaleAlbum
Paris, France post-noise quartet Cosse are pleased to announce a run of March 2024 UK headline tour dates as part of their wider upcoming EU run, with tickets on sale now (see below for listings).
Alongside the news, the band have also revealed an AI-inspired video for album track ‘Mind Facilities’, a deep cut from their debut album It Turns Pale which is out now via NMAS.
Intended to be watched on a mobile phone, the music video for 'Mind Facilities' is composed of more than 3000 images—some of them are real moments captured through photographs, others are generated by an AI, with the images edited at such a pace that the brain can’t analyse what it’s just seen. It’s a visual experience whose purpose is precisely to turn a virtual aberration into a play on senses, questioning our relationship to images, in the broader sense.
"What is real? That’s a question we are less and less able to answer,” say the band of the visuals. “Persistence of vision mixes the physical and the virtual, confuses them, blends them into one single thing.
We live in a time where the quantity of information we receive through social media shuts us away from being empathetic, taking the time to listen, read and think. We are overwhelmed by all sorts of pictures: cute cats, friends on holidays, police violence, killings…seamlessly, we get to witness and feel radically opposed things, truly immiscible, still feeding us as one single substance. As if dopamine and serotonin were but the same single molecule. We are no longer able to feel what we ought to feel. Or used to…”
Commenting on the track, the band say: "This song is more like an infernal spiral, catching us from the first notes of the electric bass, without ever giving a chance to get back out. Stuck in the labyrinth, the only option left is to run to the frenetic rhythm of the instruments and their unstoppable machinery: no perspective, no way out. Cynical lines are poured from a mouth and its chant, torn apart, as if sarcasm was the only hope left of an escape. The power of the song reaches new heights as irony turns to madness and lashing cymbal hits finally dissolve time. Everything turns into a blur, an opaque cloud, heavy and threatening. What comes next you’ll only find in listening to the rest of the song…"
Oscillating between lush post-rock and noise, Cosse deal in intertwining harmonies and flowing magma-like rivers of feedback that swallow the listener in their dense cloud. Packed with the echoes of raw vocals—which, when not chanting, are whispering—their music has an inherent sensibility and a shocking fragility. Influences including Gilla Band, Slint and Sonic Youth are obviously close at hand, making the quartet a band who, if you listen carefully, will leave you deeply moved.
The four piece released their debut EP Nothing Belongs to Anything in 2020 via French independent labels À Tant Rêver du Roi and Grabuge Records, and they’ve since shared the stage with Lysistrata, Mothers, Bruit, GGGOLDDD, and Chiyoda Ku, as well as appearing at Hellfest 2021.
Their ambitious debut album It Turns Pale was recorded at Katzwijm Studio in the Netherlands under the guidance of their long-term producer Floyd Atema, a central figure of Holland’s current powerful and inspired post-rock/noise scene, receiving key streaming support from Spotify's French Noise and Deezer's French Zone.
Cosse’s debut album It Turns Pale is out now via NMAS
2024 UK Live Dates:
2nd March - Exeter - Cavern
3rd March - Southampton - Heartbreakers
4th March - Glasgow - Bloc+
5th March - Oxford - The Library
6th March - London - The George Tavern
7th March - Canterbury - The Crash of Moons Club
8th March - Nottingham - JT Soar
9th March - Manchester - Disorder
10th March - Sheffield - Make Noise Studios
11th March - Bournemouth - The Bear’s Bar
12th March - Brighton - The Hope & Ruin
COSSE are:
Nils Bö : Guitar / vocals
Benoît Quentin : Bass / backing vocals
Tim Garson : Drums / backing vocals
Felipe Sierra : Guitar
COSSE online:
https://www.instagram.com/cosse_band/
https://www.facebook.com/cosseband/
Watch:
CLIP - Evening
Live session - Crazy Horse
Live session - Church
Clip - Sun forget me
More about It Turns Pale:
"We met Floyd when we were looking for someone to mix the first EP,” say the band, of working with Atema. “It was Alicia Breton Ferrer (The Sweet Release of Death, Neighbours Burning Neighbours) who introduced us on that occasion. We loved how Floyd mixed the EP so much that we knew we wanted him as producer on the album.”
Situated in the middle of the famous Dutch flower region called ‘de Bollenstreek’, artists have long raved about the atmosphere and the ‘breeze of fresh air’ that found its way into their hearts, minds, and music whilst recording at Katzwijm, so the band decamped to the Netherlands to lock themselves up for two weeks, lost in the middle of the fields.
The challenge for the band on It Turns Pale was to show as many different facets of Cosse as possible, whether it was pushing a track’s length, creating and combining highly contrasting parts, or, on the contrary, producing very simple, accessible tracks that retained their emotional and sonic depth and weight.
“It was very intense. We always pushed ourselves to the very end, looking for the unique sound of each track,” say the band of the experience. “Floyd is a great sound engineer—he always came up with extra ideas, putting microphones in vacuum cleaner pipes, pots and pans, or getting dusty ‘30s snare drums with a crazy sound.”
“Beyond that, he knew how to push the psychology of the band in certain places. Making an album is not just playing notes and recording well, it's capturing an emotion, a moment, and he had the words to put us in a particular mood, especially for the recording of the vocals. It wasn’t that far from a session with your shrink,” they laugh, “but it created something special for sure."
