Cold Beat – Mother Discount

Wound tight with an energy that ricochets from one song into the next, COLD BEAT s Mother was made while frontperson HANNAH LEW (formerly of indie trio GRASS WIDOW) was pregnant and considering the chaotic conditions of the world she was bringing a new human into. If we consider Mother an artistic style guide through space and time, the framework Cold Beat provide is overcast by design but focused in execution; locked-in drums and synths with choir-like melodies high above it all. The A-side of Mother presents the facts as we perceive them, while the B-side accelerates into the uncertain. Each of the first five track titles is one evocative word: the synths on ÒPrismÓ slide against the motorik guitar riffs and the plaintive saxophone on ÒPaperÓ casts the Leonard Cohen-esque melody in a melancholy shadow; ÒGlovesÓ is a real mood, all drive. Everything begins to unfurl from there.