mulberry street review

so our good friends, and sometimes house-guests, the Cold War Kids got a nice write up this week in the O.C. Weekly. Lots of big time name dropping comparisons by the columnist, and a really positive review overall.

Cowboy Nation was the best Velvet Underground rip-off I ever saw, 10-gallon hats and all, scraping out a New York subway sound for songs about big skies and long rides—the scenery sure didn’t fit, but somehow the music sounded just the same, with that raw guitar suddenly as much Hank Williams as Lou Reed. Fullerton’s Cold War Kids do this too, cultivating a proto-country-as-post-punk personality like Nick Cave or Tom Waits—or Long Beach’s Brett Cutts and Costa Mesa’s Matt Adams, who both messed around with a similar sound for a while; it’s a natural thing to think of when you’re holding a guitar at a certain time of night.

check out the whole write up here