FAUX 019
Persistent Malaise
by Cold Pumas
BUY / LISTEN: 12″ SOLD OUT | CD | Digital Download
Cold Pumas hail from Brighton, land of windswept piers, and have been abiding by the three Rs since their inception: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition. Yet their début long-player, Persistent Malaise is the result of an internal aeon of transient rebirths. Released on the 5th November as a triumvirate split between Faux Discx, Gringo Records and Italian Beach Babes, the album is both a metronomic cathedral of married noise and a funnel of kraut-tinged catharsis. It arrives preceded by a wave of 7”s that have captured the taught and at times nascent evolution of this trio of fraternal pedants.
As opined by the album’s name, the sonic unease is at times betrayed deliberately by its rhythmic crux. Indeed, several juxtapositions lie between the persistence of those invigorating textural showers, the locked cadences of the songs and the underpinning of lyrics retelling the ubiquitous dread of a relationship’s decline. It feels at times like being the lone watcher of a party slowly decaying around oblivious guests.
Side A
A Versatile Gift
Fog Cutter
Sherry Island
Variety Lights
Side B
The Modernist Crown
Puce Moment
Rayon Gris
Vanishing Point
Credits
Recorded, mixed and mastered by John Hannon at No Recording Studio
Artwork by Flo Brooks
Details
Released 05 November 2012. VINYL: Edition of 500 180g black vinyl, reverse-board printed sleeve with spine and printed inner-sleeve. Includes digital download. CD: Edition of 1000, reverse-board printed gatefold digifile packaging.