Coo & Howl: Water Came And Cooled Us All… makes Tart a bit speechless

Sea Dragon-Shaped mp3 Coo & Howl Water Came And Cooled Us All …. buy it!

Do you need a quick pressie for someone who likes the kind of music that they can turn on and just sit back and soak in on a lazy Saturday afternoon? Well, have I got the thing for you! Someone slipped this name to me a few weeks ago and even though I’m trying to NOT listen to anything new until I’ve finished my lists, damnit, I can’t help it. Coo & Howl do exactly what their band name says. How fucking cool is that?!? They have a little EP out on Amie St (where you pay the going rate, per song or per album, according to popularity, so get in there now before the price goes up!) called Water Came And Cooled Us All. It’s full of really smooth electric guitar sounds fused with other modern bits that evoke that melodic, mellow feel of some of my heroes from the 7os, Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, Bread. At the same time, Coo & Howl completely innovate whatever genre my feeble brain wants to box them into. A little bluesy (ah that guitar is sweet!), a bit folksy (especially the so soft vocals), totally experimental, Coo & Howl have captured my attention away from just about everything today. This is acoustic music that is beautiful played at a nice mellow volume, in your living room, or equally good played loud in your ear with headphones. Don’t miss the small parts. Don’t fail to be surprised where it suddenly drops off or where the timing changes all over the place in “Big Blue Heron, Parts 1-3.”

Coo & Howl played their first show on Dec. 4. in Somerville, MA. They have 17 friends on MySpace. This thing is just getting started folks. Get in on the ground floor of what is going to be an amazing project. Each of them: Christian Cundari, Ben Didsbury, Matt Dodge, Daniel Madri, and Matt Savage, have played in various other bands before. This new collaboration is surely inspired! Look for their next recording, and for live shows this winter.