: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Cold Beat : Album.......: Mother : : Label.......: DFA Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Electronic : Catnr.......: DFA2668 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-06-04 Str.date....: 2020-02-28 Quality.....: 264kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://coldbeatsf.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Smoke 1:48 2. Prism 4:22 3. Paper 3:28 4. Pearls 5:44 5. Gloves 3:29 6. Through 4:00 7. Double Sided Mirror 4:07 8. Mother 2:34 9. Crimes 3:16 10. Flat Earth 2:37 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 35:25 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 70.78 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: San Francisco band Cold Beat make their DFA debut with æMotherÆ, :, : a collection of ten pop transmissions. : :' ': ,: "Wound tight with an energy that ricochets from one song into :, : the next, æMotherÆ 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 æMotherÆ 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. : :' ': ,: ôI found myself trying to describe our earth to a new human who :, : had never been here,ö says Lew. ôIt was a bleak year to be : :' pregnant, but I was simultaneously filled with so much love and ': ,: hope at the same time. I remember feeling a sense of wanting to :, : show my whole range of self to this new person I was about to : :' meet. In past albums, I sometimes held my artistic self in an ': ,: ethereal place, but I found myself wanting to be very much on :, : this earth and grounded during the creation of this record.ö : :' ': ,: 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 ': ,: æPrismÆ slide against the motorik guitar riffs and the plaintive :, : saxophone on æPaperÆ casts the Leonard Cohen-esque melody in a : :' melancholy shadow; æGlovesÆ is a real mood, all drive. ': ,: Everything begins to unfurl from there. ôWill it be over if :, : thereÆs no sound?ö Lew wonders on album standout æDouble Sided : :' MirrorÆ and then ruminates ôit wonÆt be long until you find me ': ,: in the beyondö on the more upbeat æCrimes.Æ The early architects :, : of these sonic settings - Eurythmics, The Human League, Depeche : :' Mode - act as touchstones and inspiration. ': ,: :, : One of the most prescient things æMotherÆ teaches is that : :' existence will not be - and has not ever been - a solitary ': ,: experience. ôItÆs really the first album where the project felt :, : more like a band,ö Lew says. ôIn a lot of ways, it feels like : :' our first album.ö And though four albums (released on Dark ': ,: Entries and LewÆs own label Crime On The Moon) precede this one, :, : æMotherÆ is Cold Beat at their most concentrated and : :' crystalline. ItÆs an honest, forgiving and ultimately ': ,: optimistic team effort from a band busy being born, re-born and :, : giving life." : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/