{"title":"Cold Beat","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mother-5","title":"Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco band Cold Beat make their DFA debut with \u003ci\u003eMother,\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of ten pop transmissions from Earth. Wound tight with an energy that ricochets from one song into the next, \u003ci\u003eMother \u003c\/i\u003ewas made while frontperson Hannah Lew (formerly of indie trio Grass Widow) was pregnant and considering the chaotic conditions of the world she was bringing a new human into. If we consider \u003ci\u003eMother\u003c\/i\u003e an artistic style guide through space and time, the framework Cold Beat provide is overcast by design but focused in execution; locked-in drums and synths with choir-like melodies high above it all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe A-side of \u003ci\u003eMother\u003c\/i\u003e presents the facts as we perceive them, while the B-side accelerates into the uncertain. Each of the first five track titles is one evocative word: the synths on ‘Prism’ slide against the motorik guitar riffs and the plaintive saxophone on \u003ci\u003ePaper \u003c\/i\u003ecasts the Leonard Cohen-esque melody in a melancholy shadow; \u003ci\u003eGloves\u003c\/i\u003e is a real mood, all drive. Everything begins to unfurl from there. “Will it be over if there’s no sound?” Lew wonders on album standout \u003ci\u003eDouble Sided Mirror,\u003c\/i\u003e and then ruminates, “it won’t be long until you find me in the beyond” on the more upbeat \u003ci\u003eCrimes\u003c\/i\u003e. The early architects of these sonic settings - Eurythmics, The Human League, Depeche Mode - act as touchstones and inspiration. One of the most prescient things Mother teaches is that existence will not be, and has not ever been, a solitary experience. And though four LPs (released on Dark Entries and Lew’s own label Crime On The Moon) precede this one, \u003ci\u003eMother\u003c\/i\u003e is Cold Beat at their most concentrated and crystalline. It’s an honest, forgiving, and ultimately optimistic team effort from a band busy being born, re-born and giving life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DFA","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51106371436875,"sku":"1084480","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/302062a0-6cc3-4091-a500-093aecd02a3a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1737006027"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/cold-beat.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}