Hiya Cosmos: Maintain Digging
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Hiya Cosmos maintain it pressing and impressed with their new EP, Maintain Digging. Andy Brown spreads some noisy positivity for Louder Than Warfare.
Over the course of quite a few releases, Manchester’s Hiya Cosmos have filtered ample parts of anger and inspiration by way of an eclectic array of noisy alt-rock and playful experimentation. Headed up by multi-instrumentalist Ben Robinson, the challenge is simply as comfy releasing an LP of forward-thinking post-punk as it’s unveiling an album of eclectic remixes. That sense of creativity and enjoyable actually hasn’t deserted them with their newest EP, Maintain Digging.
By no means one’s to draw back from a daring opening assertion, Flip Off the Information broadcasts the band’s return with a reassuring sense of objective. “Don’t let billionaires persuade you you’re poor ‘cos of people who stay subsequent door,” sings a fiery-eyed Robinson over noisy guitars and galloping drums. The latter offered by his brother in arms – and literal brother – Simon. Maybe greater than ever, the singer’s lyrics hit the nail decisively on the top. Sure, we’re taking a look at you Mr. Murdoch.
Recorded throughout an absinthe-fuelled session together with his brother-in-law, Use the Instruments finds Robinson and Hiya Cosmos at their most direct. A name to harness the ability of our digital units; the music is a breathless, heavy and completely exhilarating barnstormer. Inebriated but clearly impressed; the monitor goes for straight the jugular. The title monitor is an ominous and pummelling piece of fuzz-laden rock; Robinson delivering an actual ribcage rattler of a bassline as Adrian Ingham and Angela Chan set the guitars and strings to spooky. Intense, darkish and fairly in contrast to the rest within the band’s repertoire.
Pores and skin finds an impassioned Robinson pleading for the one he adores over some mighty superb post-punk clatter. The entire thing comes throughout like a extra angsty Way forward for the Left. Butterfly Wing (Flip It On) brings the EP to an eclectic shut with some widescreen psych-rock and a easy plea to, “personal your individual time and personal your individual thoughts.” As at all times, the message cuts by way of the noise like a neon-lit epiphany. All of it begins right here of us.
With the world like it’s, it’s good to have Hiya Cosmos on the market, venting their spleens and delivering songs with all of the conviction and power of an activist on a march. Truthfully, nobody does noisy positivity higher than these guys. Even the title of the EP appears like a rallying cry: maintain digging my associates, maintain digging.
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