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Year Without a Shadow

A Year Without a Shadow

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Cold Beat is a San Francisco-based quartet fronted by Hannah Lew (synths, vocals) with Kyle King (synths, guitar), Luciano Talpini Aita (synths) and Sean Monaghan (guitar). Formed in 2013 the band has released three albums and two EPs.  ‘A Simple Reflection’ is a 7-song collection of Eurythmics covers, yet feels just as personal as any of their original material. While digging through a collection of 12"s for her record shop Contact Records, Lew stumbled across the earliest Eurythmics B-sides and was floored. This lead to the discovery of their debut album ‘In The Garden'. Annie Lennox’s abstract and poetic lyrics really struck a chord with Hannah. What had started out as a single cover quickly snowballed into a full blown obsession.  The synth and drum programming resonated with her songwriting process, so reimagining them was very creatively fulfilling. The covers on this EP are simultaneously dynamic and atmospheric post-punk that plays to Lew's ethereal vocals and King’s crystalline guitar. All songs have been mixed by Mikey Young (Total Control)  and mastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The record is housed in a jacket designed by Eloise Leigh, which features pink and purple clouds that evoke a dreamy softness and DIY playfulness and photos Lew in her best Lennox-inspired drag. Each copy includes a postcard with photos and notes. “Sometimes a song seems to sing just for you, as if someone knows your most inner thoughts and feelings and has found a way to describe them effortlessly” - Hannah Lew

A Simple Reflection

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Chronophage- Animated Rose
As Mercenarias- Imagem
Disturbed- I Don't Believe
Hagar The Womb- One Bright Spark
Flowers In The Dustbin- The Reason Why
Nikki Sudden- Curfew Island
Lou Miami and the Kozmetix- To Sir With Love
Cassie- Will You?
The Mutettes- Leatherette Heart
Dolly Mixture- The Same Mistake
The Enigma- Play With Fire
P22- Intro
Dirt- Dolls of Destruction
Violators- The Fugitive
Suicide Squad- New Kid's Army
Venus and the Razorblades- I Want To Be Where The Boys Are
The Anemic Boyfriends- Bad Girls In Love
Au Pairs- Domestic Departure
Action Pact- Suicide Bag
Kebab- Life It's A Joke
Sporten Ar Dod- Fontanen
Mizz Nobody- Smittad
Trummerfrauen- Gelbkreuz
Neonbabies- Deppresiv
Jo Squillo Electrix- Ma Chi Se Ne Frega
Gil Incesti- Sabato Midnight
Stinky Toys- City Life
Edith Nylon- Sado Maso
Girls At Our Best!- Pleasure
Essential Logic- Collecting Dust
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band- Why
Faust- Baby
Throbbing Gristle- United
Matt Johnson- Song Without An Ending
Roland S Howard- Silver Chain
Lydia Lunch & B's- Grey Death
Flaming Tunes- The Best Weapon
Opal- Fell From The Sun
Fairport Convention- Meet On The Ledge

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Combining stark post-punk instrumentation, lush melodies, and abstract yet vivid songwriting, Cold Beat is the project of singer/songwriter/bassist Hannah Lew. From the beginning, Cold Beat dove into big-picture topics: On 2014's Over Me, she explored the death of her father and loss in general on compact, driving songs that harked back to the heyday of Tubeway Army, Blondie, and the Sound (whose song "Cold Beat" gave Lew's project its name). The changing face of her hometown San Francisco in the wake of tech companies' success informed 2015's Into the Air, which added jangly indie pop, Motorik, and minimal synth experiments to Lew's repertoire. The electronic elements of Cold Beat's music only grew as the years passed, with 2020's Mother reflecting the influence of Eurythmics -- as well as Lew's own motherhood -- on its polished, expansive meditations.
Lew began writing Cold Beat songs in the late 2000s while playing with the acclaimed San Francisco trio Grass Widow and establishing herself as a filmmaker and visual artist. When the band went on hiatus after releasing 2012's Internal Logic, Lew focused on Cold Beat in earnest. She took Neon Piss guitarist Kyle King, Shannon & the Clams guitarist/synth player Cody Blanchard,

and former Grass Widow drummer Lillian Maring into the studio to record November 2013's Worms/Year 5772, a set of songs touching on the death of her father and her own insomnia. The first release on Lew's Crime on the Moon label, it also featured a remixes by POW! and Total Control's Mikey Young, with whom Lew forged a long-running creative partnership. Lew continued her meditations on grief with Cold Beat's first full-length, July 2014's Over Me. Recorded by Trans Am's Phil Manley and mixed and mastered by Young, it found Lew backed by King and Erase Errata drummer Bianca Sparta.
Cold Beat's lineup and sound continued to evolve quickly. Just over a year after the release of Over Me, the band returned with September 2015's Into the Air, which featured drummer Susi Leni and guitarist Jackson Blumgart alongside Lew and King. Partly influenced by San Francisco's rapid gentrification thanks to the tech boom, the album boasted a more electronic-based sound that informed the Cold Beat albums that followed. Lew wrote and recorded most of 2017's more intimate Chaos by Invitation on her own, later bringing in Manley, Young, King, and Blumgart for additional tracking. In August 2018, Cold Beat returned with A Simple Reflection, an EP of Eurythmics covers that expanded the group's lineup to include King, guitarist Sean Monaghan and keyboardist Luciano Talpini Aita. The EP's lush, synth-driven sound laid the musical groundwork for the band's fourth album. Mother, which was inspired by Lew's pregnancy as well as the tumultuous state of the world, was released by DFA in February 2020.

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