Cobra Verde is back with their first original studio disc in five years. Haven't Slept All Year rolls out twelve songs and enough sounds to span four decades of rock--power-pop with monster riffs, bubblegum hooks, analogue synths, and whomp-and-stomp beats. The band entered the studio soon after releasing their 2003 powerhouse, Easy Listening. It proved to be Cobra Verde's most successful disc to date, spawned three US tours and inspired raves, smiles, bloodshot eyes, and drunken stupors across the country. One problem. When prepared to record the follow-up, they didn't want to do what so many bands would: repeat themselves and devolve into formula. So they recorded a covers disc--Copycat Killers (Scat, 2005)--and used songs such as "Get the Party Started" or "Play With Fire" as guinea pigs to explore new sounds and styles. Little did they know that what started as an experiment would also lead them to recording a cover of Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" for The O.C. as well as an appearance on the show. The experiment eventually led to their latest, Haven't Slept All Year, all over the map in terms of sound and style. It opens with a badass riff, then detours into wounded singalongs, glittery pop, blue moods, and raging, glorious rock. And yet it never loses its way: it's idiosyncratic and identifiable as only Cobra Verde can be.
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“Play With Fire" was both featured in the HBO series True Blood (season 1 DVD just came out), and it's accompanying soundtrack. What do you get when you cross Pink with Hawkwind, Brit-pop mopers, post-punk junk, disco spunk, denim and leather, spandex and polyester, fringe and feathers? Good question. Cobra Verde’s Copycat Killers might have the answer with its twelve tunes you’d never hear on a K-Tel comp, let alone during prom night. Their pot-induced rendition of Pink’s “Get the Party Started” starts the party, and the shindig continues with a kraut-rockin’ version of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” and whomp-and-stomp nuggets by the Troggs, Flamin’ Groovies and, uh, New Order. That’s not all (it never is). These Cleveland rock legends Motownify Hawkwind, perform a Bo Diddley-ized upgrade on The Fall, and reimagine the Stones’ “Play With Fire” as a stalker on an answering machine. Cobra Verde will charge across the U.S. in support of this opus, and have already toured relentlessly with the MC5 guys, Mike Watt, Breeders and J. Mascis - all CV fans. (Mascis even plays guitar in the band sometimes.) They’ve been hailed as “the last rock stars,” “pop nihilists,” “glittery rebel rebels” and “a brilliant mix of ‘70s glam, post-punk, heavy pop and balls-out rock” by Magnet, Rolling Stone, FHM, Blender, Playboy, TimeOut, Entertainment Weekly, Village Voice ‘ every place except Soldier of Fortune (and they’re even promising to get on board this time). • Cleveland rock legends bust out covers of Donna...
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