by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Cower started as a logo and formed into a band, or so the story goes. The band, which features members of USA Nails, Petbrick, and Yards, are getting ready to release their full length debut, simply titled BOYS, on November 26th via Human Worth (Modern Technology). The record’s first single, “Enough,” packed a dense noise rock thud, full of menace and quaking low end. it made sense giving the member’s individual pedigrees, but it’s also kind of a misleading single as far as Cower goes.
While the band certainly incorporate elements of deranged noise rock into their sound, they more often lean into a spookier goth croon to anchor their bludgeoning. “Midnight Sauce,” the second single from BOYS highlights that side of their output, a song filled with terror and menace but drawn together with a silky vocal performance that resides somewhere between Bauhaus and Nick Cave. The video was directed by the band’s own Thomas Lacey, captures a mix of film noir imagery of both dread and the better aspects of life, though the dread seems to weigh heavy. Speaking about the song, Lacey shared:
"Midnight Sauce is about leaning into catastrophizing so hard that is does in-fact end the world we know and love. We wrote this before the world actually ended this year; call it prescience, pessimism, sooth-saying, whatever, we were right.”