Artist: Cold War Kids
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Robbers and Cowards
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Fullerton, CA's Cold War Kids make music with roots that go deep and spacious, embrace influences as various as Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Jeff Buckley, and the Velvet Underground. Matt Aveiro, Matt Maust, Jonnie Russell, and Nathan Willett began crafting their soulful, blues-inflected withdraw on indie rock as Cold War Kids in 2004, recording demos in Los Angeles soon afterward they formed. After sign language to Monarchy Music, Cold War Kids released their debut EP, Mulberry Street, in spring 2005. The band's unique intelligent and fiery bouncy behave generated a buzz -- in particular from bloggers -- that grew with each tour and waiver. Maust's clean simply attention-getting designs for EPs like With Our Wallets Full and Up in Rags and the group's web site too added to Cold War Kids' mystique. They spent practically of 2006 on the road with Tapes 'n Tapes, Figurines, Sound Team, and Editors and appeared at that year's Lollapalooza. That summer, they signed to Downtown Records, besides home to Art Brut and Gnarls Barkley. The band's full-length debut Robbers & Cowards arrived that hang.
