ANNOUNCING, from your favorite Boulder-based independent cassette label, the debut EP from your ex-girlfriend’s new favorite band, Coo Coo Bad Brains! What started as a “solo project” some several months ago by a very bored man sitting alone in his bedroom one day has snowballed into a legitimate music playing gang that’s already undergone several lineup changes, and we all know you’re not allowed to call yourself a band until you’ve kicked someone out and/or they’ve left of their own discord. (We kid – the bassist moved to Seattle to pursue an internship with Sub Pop and the drum machine just couldn’t hang.)
 
Mermaids Don’t Exist will strike into the depths of the soul of any listener who’s a fan of the following: jangly, warbling guitars. Obscured vocals, pitch-shifted and often hidden beneath layers of musical nostalgia. Cheap whiskey. Shitty wine. Found footage. Smoke. More nostalgia. If you’re an introvert who likes talking about your problems, if you hate meeting new people but still go out just to feel awkward and complain about it later – THIS RECORD IS FOR YOU.
 
The process? Allow everyone contributing complete freedom to express whatever they happen to be feeling at the time. The outcome? A combination of ambient, spoken word, and chaotic noise sprinkled atop a lush mountain of bummer rock. CCBB lulls you in with their tempting, incandescent and boyish charm only to slap you in the face and drop you off a cliff of distortion, leaving you wallowing half-drunk in your own waste of emotions. Coo Coo Bad Brains gets you. Nobody else does, but they do.
 
Friends was recorded in a bathtub. The rest was recorded at the radio station where the band works.
 
Out now, on First Base Tapes. Mermaids Don’t Exist, by Coo Coo Bad Brains

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Cooper

Dad God

Friends

Soap Scum

Vanity Plate

Toyotathon

First Base Tapes is an independent label out of Boulder, Colorado created to support a vibrant music scene in the Denver/Boulder area. 

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