aaamusic | On 28, Feb 2013

Crash & The Coots

Hill Rise EP

Release Date: 25/3/2013

Label: Once Upon A Time

“Hill Rise” is the new EP from Crash & The Coots. It’s the follow up to our debut “John Coles Park” EP.

These are the people we tried to rip off while we were writing this EP: Ringo Deathstarr, Those Darlins, The Growlers, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, Neil Young, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Lemonheads, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Phil Spector.

The EP is named after the council estate in Chippenham where our dad grew up and as ALWAYS was recorded in a bedroom in our mum’s house. We’ve brought in a lot of childhood influences to this EP (hence the title) such as Bob Dylan’s questionable harmonica playing, as well as budget drum machines and Michael Jackson in all his magnificence.

Since the last EP Ewan has got no better at circuit bending – although he did build a circuit bent Keytar (which rocks) and features heavily on the EP. Even more of our equipment is broken. I don’t think we own a single fully functioning piece of gear. Which means that we were having to record things in awkward ways e.g. stitching takes together on logic, or one person holding the lead in the bass while the other one records the take. We’ve started sampling ourselves more on vintage samplers and we’ve also been using tape a lot… it didn’t always work.

Crash & The Coots play:

March 1st: The Porter (Bath)

March 9th: Smoke & Mirrors at Barfly (London)

March 15th: Cheese & Grain (Frome)

March 21st: Moles (Bath): w/ Bitches

April 17th: Start The Bus (Bristol): w/ Emperor