French Post-Noise Quartet COSSE Announce April/May 2023 UK Tour Dates
French Post-Noise Quartet COSSE Announce April/May 2023 UK Tour Dates
Paris Band’s Debut Album It Turns Pale Out Now via NMAS
Private listen - HERE
Stream and share - https://linktr.ee/ItTurnsPaleAlbum
Reveal Live Session Video For Album Track ‘Tangerine’
Watch - https://youtu.be/zKuMkJo3Au0
Paris, France post-noise quartet Cosse are delighted to announce a run of April/May 2023 UK headline tour dates as part of their spring EU live schedule.
To give fans a taste of what to expect from their live show, the band have released a live session video for their track ‘Tangerine’, a deep cut from their debut album It Turns Pale which is out now via NMAS.
Commenting on the track, the band say: “This is the first part of a diptych live session. ‘Tangerine’ is an electric and tense song. We wanted to show off the part of the album that reflects our post punk influences, mixed with the colours we love from post rock. We also wanted to showcase our new lineup with this live session and highlight Benoit (Quentin, bass), who recently joined the band, but has already found his place and is deeply influencing our way of playing.”
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 Girl 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.
Cosse will be on tour throughout the UK and EU this spring/summer, with tickets on sale now (see below for listings).
Cosse’s debut album It Turns Pale is out now via NMAS
Cosse Live Dates:
28.04 Bristol - The Crofters Rights
29.04 London - The Windmill
02.05 Brighton - The Pipeline
05.05 Nottingham - The Chameleon
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."
