by Patrick Pilch (@pratprilch)
Toronto cohort cootie catcher are set to tour across Canada with Dafnez this Friday for what looks like a good old fashioned DIY run. The band has a pair of hometown shows tonight and tomorrow with a brand new track to boot. “Sound Out the Vowels” is cootie catcher’s latest single for The Cooked Raw Label and the best way for new listeners to dive into the band’s playful and colorful discography. “Vowels” perfectly captures the project’s lighthearted approach to clever, thoughtful songwriting. The overtly twee palette is no schtick; cootie catcher songs are teeming with Nolan Jakupovski and Anita Fowl’s keen pop sensibilities, and “Sound Out the Vowels” is the tip of the iceberg into the band’s range; the silly, the earnest, and the absurd.
On this tour, cootie catcher will be slinging tapes of an unreleased, physical only, seven song release called curlicue. It looks like catching the band on tour might be the only way to pick up any cootie catcher tapes, as theirs and Cooked Raw’s Bandcamp pages are fresh out. Grip the tix—grip the tape!
Check out “Sound Out the Vowels” below (made by Shmutz) and catch cootie catcher on tour with Dafnez this month:
02/08 - Toronto - sonic boom* (acoustic)
02/09 - Toronto - bar orwell
02/10 - Hamilton - doors
02/11 - Kitchener - euclid house
02/12 - London - holy diver*
02/16 - Montreal - hemisphere gauche
02/17 - Ottawa - dm for address
*cootie catcher only