(4/5) Parfois, en critique, on découvre des groupes assez connus qui avaient manqué à nos radars. Cette fois, on me présente Cobra & Vulture. À la première écoute, je m’imagine dans les contrées américaines, les grandes prairies, avec des chanteuses de country et folk extrêmement talentueuses. J’aime, j’adore, c’est même un peu pop et il y a du indie-rock. J’entends une batterie franchement plaisante, ingénieuse et pleine de ressources. Deux voix qui se donne la réplique dans un superbe tempo chevauchant avec grâce et passion, une vrai danse. Bon, alors qui sont ces deux chanteuses américaines ? me dis-je. Elles doivent venir du Texas ou un coin comme ça. (…plus)

•  26 February 2013

Grasslands is Disc of the Week over on QBIM! #champions

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•  4 February 2013

Check out this interview with the band over on Ominocity, Saskatoon’s excellent arts and culture website!

•  27 January 2013  •  2 notes

I travel further

by cart than wind

across this land

A line of trees

fence in a river,

a watchful stand

Our way is through and

across the empty-seeming scan 

• We Lose Our Maps

Hey everyone,

We are extremely pleased to announce that our first full length album, Grasslands is now available on BandCamp and for preorder of the limited edition, handmade CD out early this Spring!

Grasslands is set in an ambiguous prairie landscape and explores dreamed, real and imagined vistas; the kinds of impressions one has while standing in a flatland field; the feeling of being both limitless and hemmed in.

Track Listing (43 minutes):

1. Prairia
2. Snow Blindness
3. Strange Dream
4. Carve A Path Like A Valley Through the Land
5. Day for Night
6. All That We Carry
7. We Lose Our Maps
8. Ghost Town
9. Hills Are In Sight
10. Pile of Bones
11. Closed-Eye Vision

For more about the band, and how we made the album, please visit this fancy page. 

Thanks!

C&V

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All songs written and recorded by Cobra & Vulture © 2013

Additional recording at Digital Bird Studios (tracks 4, 7, 10)

Field recording by Andrea-Jane Cornell (track 1, 11)

Bass by David Krajic (tracks 3, 8)

Mixed by David Krajic

Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering

Album cover photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society

from its Everett Baker Slide Collection

•  22 January 2013  •  1 note

Check out an interview with Amber from C&V all about the new album Grasslands on this past Monday’s Underground Sounds show (CKUT 90.3FM)!

Interview starts around the 6:30 minute mark, plus three tunes from Grasslands get played.

•  18 January 2013  •  1 note

Folks,

Cobra & Vulture is releasing our first full-length album, Grasslands, next Tuesday, January the 22nd. In anticipation of that, we’re streaming the record in full right here on Soundcloud.

Full album details, artwork and more to come next week!

C&V

•  15 January 2013

ictidomys:

“…the lovely agates and jaspers I bought.  You know, the ones that spoke to me of the prairie landscape.” ~Lynn Bowes

•  15 January 2013  •  2 notes

Hills Are In Sight is a searching, scrambling and brief tune brightened by the desperate hope of escape. A wee reworked vintage western video for the wee-est Grasslands song, complete with cattle wrestling.

•  9 January 2013  •  1 note

Thanks to In Your Speakers- 8/10, very rad!

•  30 December 2012  •  1 note

•  16 December 2012  •  5 notes