Name: Soft Friday (Import)
Brand: Coves

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

310051

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-04-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

RTNY

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

067003100519

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Coves

Genre US

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label US

Nettwerk

Coves is a French photo-journalist, promoter, radio and TV presenter with over 30 years of experience in the music scene. She has worked in both Paris and London, immersing herself in the vibrant music cultures of these cities.

Her work as a photo-journalist allowed her to capture the essence of live performances and document the energy and passion of musicians on stage. As a promoter, she played a vital role in organizing events and showcasing talented artists to wider audiences.

With her extensive knowledge and love for music, Coves became a respected figure in the industry. Her expertise led her to become a radio and TV presenter, where she shared her insights with listeners and viewers alike.

Rough Trade US Exclusive. If you love the Velvet Underground and The Ronettes and everything inbetween then this glacial duo's debut is a must have. Basements hung with fairy lights, 60s tape reels spinning antique spools, drums dusted with white powder. Gritty riffs and psych rock washes slither beneath airy, blissed-blank Nico vocals spinning spectral tales of shattered romance. A beautifully ruined pair - he a leather-clad glowering guitar phantom, she a glacial, broken bombshell - blow glitter at each other through the flashes from old cameras. This is the world of Coves, a classic psych-garage aesthetic vacuum-sealed forever in one time, one space. The space is Castle Grayskull, the live-in studio that musical mastermind John Ridgard helped build in a disused office in Leamington Spa and where their debut album was recorded. And the time covers the duration of singer and lyricist Beck Wood's last big relationship, laid out in her songs from first flutter to final choke. The 10-track album is just 40 minutes long and includes 'Honeybee', which was the first song they wrote together and arguably their most vicious, Beck sweetly snarling "you're burning through my memory like a poison" over John's demonic gutter bass, the sitar'n'synth psych-pop wonder 'No Ladder' and the propulsive garage beauty 'Cast A Shadow' ("that's about when I got back with him and all the frustration in the relationship").

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