He's back! Cong returns with his scorching second album MOTO ZONE (out later this year). And to get you pumped he presents: ‘1300 Scorpio’ the barn burning first single from the record. As usual it’s a real good time. This heavy and sleazy stomper has become a de facto Cong Josie theme, a calling card and manifesto in his raving live sets. The rhythm gallops, bucks and pounds like a motorised bull. Western overlays of heart tugging steel guitar lift and dip. While Cong wrestles with himself; self-loathing vs self-promotion.

He lives in this contradiction, crooning for you to listen, to call him on his chat line, but what’s in it for the caller? The money and attention are for the 'Scorpio Cong' and a "lonely, lonesome time" for you?
Are you sold?
Then call now! 1300 SCORPIO

1300 SCORPIO is taken from the upcoming album MOTO ZONE 
out soon on It Records.

1300 Scorpio

Cong Josie - 1300 Scorpio

The second single from Cong Josie’s imminent sophomore album Moto Zone, chugs and throbs harder than any road train worth its salt. In fact, this slab of revving post-industrial boogie may as well have ‘A Mad Max Saga’ as its sub-title. Sure enough, Hot Hot Motor sounds like the scraps of rock’n’roll history pieced together in a post-apocalyptic southern land. Referencing, David Essex’s ‘Rock On’ (itself a refashioned fantasy of rock’n’roll) and the hunk-o-burnin-love King himself. Cong tells a cautionary tale about how living on hi-octane kicks can only end in tears. Sobs and throbs are the order of the day here. 

Of course it’s autobiographical and of course he doesn’t want his day job, or the law to know the nitty gritty. So, you do the maths and enjoy the ride. That ride, we promise you, has plenty of thrills despite the ever-present melancholy. ‘Hot Hot Motor’ is essentially a synth-punk duet between Johnny Cayn’s skronking sax and Cong’s croons and wild-man screams. A call here, an answer there, a He’s A Rebel jaunty solo here and an uncouth vocal outburst there.

If you can handle the tears, rev that hot, hot, motor today.

HOT HOT MOTOR releases digitally on all platforms worldwide FRIDAY JULY 26 202

GENRE: NO-WAVE, NEW WAVE, ART ROCK, POST-PUNK, SYNTH-PUNK, SYNTHWAVE, DARKWAVE, ALTERNATIVE, INDIE, ELECTRONIC, ROCKABILLY, ROCK’N’ROLL

RIYL: ALAN VEGA,  CHROME, THE CRAMPS, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, KID CONGO POWERS, THE FALL, CABARET VOLTAIRE, PERE UBU, SLEAFORD MODS, SUICIDE, THE GUN CLUB

Pre- Order Moto Zone here:
https://congjosie.bandcamp.com/album/moto-zone

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