SotD - The Cosmics

Neil Gardner is a bit of an audio guru, being the brains behind an award winning spoken word production company. But sometimes he likes to retreat from the digital studio to listen to some music analogue style, on vinyl. This time he makes space for The Cosmics...



Format: 7″ white vinyl


Side A: Waste of Time - a gorgeous slice of pure garage punk, swimming in its early Blondie influences. Massive rolling drums and bright rhythmic guitars play happily with the raw attitude of the storming female vocals. Thrumming, slashing guitar work brings thoughts of 70s US punk bands. Modern punk-pop doing it old-school! Where are my DMs? I feel the need for some punk-club carousing!

Side B: Johnny - extremely raw sounding punk-club vocals pogo their way around simple chord-progression guitars and stomping drums. A drastically short sharp pure-punk perspective, sadly dragged down by too-distorted and reverbed vocals. Trying so hard to be authentic 70s punk it comes off as retro-kitsch rather than required listening. Accomplished playing across the board, but just too close to the original punks to sound relevant.



Finyl Thought: proper punk played to perfection, but maybe one too many feet in the past

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First published on From the Listening Nook - Find Neil in his nook @listeningnook

Images - Neil Gardner