Cold War Kids - 'Dear Miss Lonelyhearts'
Why did Cold War Kids cross the road? To get to the middle. That’s the sort of cruel joke some unkind people (me) were making around the time 2011’s ‘Mine Is Yours’ came out. That album kinda sucked. That’s why it’s such a relief to...
Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours (V2)
Cold War Kids ’ 2006 debut ‘Robbers And Cowards’ may have been a perfectly inoffensive collection of palatable (albeit preachy) indie-rock, but Lord have mercy on them – here is an album so screamingly MOR it makes the bald dude from...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (18/01/10)
1. Cold War Kids - Audience If you reckoned these Kids were alright circa last year's 'Loyalty To Loyalty', now they've got real soul to burn, as demonstrated on this lead cut of album addendum EP 'Behave Yourself'. Taking in Vampire Weekend's...
Cold War Kids
It’s an oft repeated adage that, while few bought The Velvet Underground’s records when they were actually around, those that did went on to form bands and change a little bit of the world. In a similar vein, the sales of Cold War Kids’ 2006...
Cold War Kids
Cold War Kids release this song more often than an NME journalist’s pimply arse releases undead odours. But, unlike our anal art, somehow this remains distinctly fresh. A minimal blues bassline more sample-able than a cup of James Brown’s...
Cold War Kids
If Cold War Kids’ recent outing as Christians showed up the inability of certain sections of the media to deal with religion, especially in indie rock, then ‘Hospital Beds’ shows up our inability to deal with anything more serious than the...
Cold War Kids: Robbers & Cowards
Apart from teaching us that it sounds cool as frig to recite Ezekiel 25:17 before blowing someone’s face off (consult Pulp Fiction if you’re not sure why), The Bible’s greatest lesson is undoubtedly that Christians make great storytellers....
Cold War Kids: We Used To Vacation EP
It seems impossible for five years to pass without a group of blues-aping white kids sweeping into view. Cold War Kids – 2006, The White Stripes – 2001, urm, Gomez – 1996? To hell with that theory then. But here’s another one: with every...
