kool thing
by kool thing
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Digital Album
Immediate download of 14-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Buy Now €8 EUR or more
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Limited Edition Compact Disc
CD version of the debut album from kool thing. CD comes in a clear jewel case, with 4 page colour booklet featuring artwork from John Duncan and Julie Fogarty.
Includes immediate download of 14-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Buy Now €10 EUR or more
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Kool Thing Hand Screen Printed T-Shirt (Limited Edition)
Limited edition 100% cotton hand screen printed T-shirts in sizes Medium, Large and Extra Large. T-shirts come in Black or White with an individual pink to red fade design on each one.
Screen printed by hand in Berlin by Dolly Demoratti
Design by Julie FogartyBuy Now €12 EUR or more
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Low Love
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Stories by the Bay
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Light Games
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Origins
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The Sign
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TV Tower
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Vesterbro
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Floor Visions
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Lost Days
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Valleys
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Line Drive
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The Sky, the Sea
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Trees
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Origins II
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about
The debut full-length album from Berliner act kool thing is united by a feel of escapism, the need to ditch our urban addictions and regain a lost sense of wonderment, even if just for a few hours. With fourteen songs, including two instrumental interludes, kool thing sounds like youth remembered through a kaleidoscopic lens in which each mirrored fact points to limitless futures.
Just like the Hipgnosis-echoing cover artwork (courtesy of photographer John Duncan), this record is full of beautiful juxtapositions, artifice and nature yinning and yanging their way through a dramatic love affair. Rusty guitar licks are found curling up against fractalling synth arpeggiations, with Julie Chance and Jon Dark's vocal harmonies dancing on the horizon above the thunderous drumming by Valentin Plessy.
“TV Tower”, the lead single (named after the retro-futuristic landmark in Berlin's city centre), follows the rendezvous of tumultuous lovers, set to a majestic melange somewhere between new wave, new romantic and new age. Elsewhere, “Stories by the Bay” combines a tweaky bassline with smooth, lulling voices to convey both the nerves and bliss that accompany a first love, while “The Sky, The Sea” offers a truly otherworldly moment in which mutated musical elements seem to swim in the atmosphere.
Following the acclaimed Light Games EP and the “Plan.Life.Go” twelve-inch single, as well as their remixes for Austra, Trust and Light Asylum, kool thing is a pastiche of memories that forge a path ahead, not simply a musical journey but a mental one too.
Just like the Hipgnosis-echoing cover artwork (courtesy of photographer John Duncan), this record is full of beautiful juxtapositions, artifice and nature yinning and yanging their way through a dramatic love affair. Rusty guitar licks are found curling up against fractalling synth arpeggiations, with Julie Chance and Jon Dark's vocal harmonies dancing on the horizon above the thunderous drumming by Valentin Plessy.
“TV Tower”, the lead single (named after the retro-futuristic landmark in Berlin's city centre), follows the rendezvous of tumultuous lovers, set to a majestic melange somewhere between new wave, new romantic and new age. Elsewhere, “Stories by the Bay” combines a tweaky bassline with smooth, lulling voices to convey both the nerves and bliss that accompany a first love, while “The Sky, The Sea” offers a truly otherworldly moment in which mutated musical elements seem to swim in the atmosphere.
Following the acclaimed Light Games EP and the “Plan.Life.Go” twelve-inch single, as well as their remixes for Austra, Trust and Light Asylum, kool thing is a pastiche of memories that forge a path ahead, not simply a musical journey but a mental one too.
credits
released 04 March 2013
Written and recorded by kool thing.
Produced by kool thing.
Mixed by Jon Dark.
Mastered by Helmut Erler.
Album cover by John Duncan www.johnduncan.info.
Additional artwork by Julie Fogarty www.juliefogarty.com
www.koolthingmusic.com
© Mad Dog & Love 2013
Written and recorded by kool thing.
Produced by kool thing.
Mixed by Jon Dark.
Mastered by Helmut Erler.
Album cover by John Duncan www.johnduncan.info.
Additional artwork by Julie Fogarty www.juliefogarty.com
www.koolthingmusic.com
© Mad Dog & Love 2013
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feeds
feeds for shows
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May 30London, UK
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Jun 25Berlin, Germany
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Jul 19Dublin, Ireland
discography
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Mar 2013 -
Jul 2012
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