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Review: 'COWTOWN'
'Paranormal Romance'   

-  Label: 'HHBTM Records/Audacious Art Experiment'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '19th August 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'HHBTM0161'

Our Rating:
This is the fourth album by self-proclaimed, Leeds-BASED Spazzo Nerd Core band Cowtown. They have gone all Emoji Core on their latest hunk of Vinyl. If you want it on Ghostly white you need a US copy if you prefer Pink then you'll need a UK copy and if you prefer black you may have to find a promo copy like my one.

Produce by Hookworms' very own Matthew Johnson in flood-stricken Leeds last year while Yorkshire sank Cowtown where coming up with PR Theme to welcome you into their world. The urgent, paranoid guitars cascade from the speakers and then lurch into Clock In and turn up the odd as they hurtle towards the anti-Neo-Nazi theme.

Castleman is a fast, frantic look into your eye carnage punk. The current single, Tweak, is like a modern day Ramones sing along to tweak along to a tweaking they shall go oh aye oh. They then check in with a weird friend who's a Motivational Speaker and they keep it short and sweet and to the point with him.

Captain Planet however goes by in such a whirl you barely notice it. Blam and it's gone. Then side A finishes with Not Sure: a fast, furious slice of love but not quite sure about love punk.

The B side opens with Castle Greyscale, obviously the band's favourite font as they describe the castle and the guitars go off and explode in your ears. Let Go is not the Heartbreakers classic but sounds more like a real concise version of the band Holloys trying to decide if they go back with an ex or not.

Closed Circuit is a bit paranoid. It's all about being on CCTV all the time and not being able to disappear and being trapped within as if you're writing a song about being trapped inside by CCTV footage of you doing something. Well, by now it's time you were Buggin' Out, escaping from everything that's gone wrong. This is as quick and angular a fashion as you can get.

The album closes with Emojicore. It's the band's anthem for the emoji generation for all the kids addicted to the technology and emojis. I'd have reviewed this solely in emojis but are there enough symbols to do it justice :) ;} as the song does. It's a cool bass thang and splatters guitar shards all over the place.

Find out more at for a White Vinyl and

HHMTM Records onlinefor the Pink Vinyl copy.
  author: simonovitch

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COWTOWN - Paranormal Romance