Mancunian indie quartet Westside Cowboy are brimming with energy on their debut EP This Better Be Something Great. They are loud, but are also capable to turn it down a notch within the space of a track (Drunk Surfer). The superb slow song Shells is a serious contender for this year's best song about feeling awkward. They threw in a line from the Johnny Cash classic Folsom Prison Blues into Alright Alright Alright - the bum notes are intentional (or they just did not care fixing them).
I've Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (until I met you) sums up their mixed emotions quite nicely: pretending not to care, but also clamouring for a meaningful connection. Anguish and bravado are playing catch, with no clear winner, just like in real life.
This Better Be Something Great is released via Nice Swan Records / Heist or Hit (vinyl, digital).
Tracks:- I've Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)
- Alright Alright Alright
- Drunk Surfer
- Shells
- Slowly I'm Sure
- 08/16 Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons
- 08/28 End Of The Road Festival, Dorset, UK
- 08/30 Manchester Psych Fest, Manchester, UK
- 09/02 Button Factory, Dublin, UK*
- 09/04 New Century Hall, Manchester, UK*
- 09/06 Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK*
- 09/07 Project House, Leeds, UK*
- 09/08 SWX, Bristol, UK*
- 09/10 CHALK Live, Brighton, UK*
- 09/11 Electric Brixton, London, UK*
- 09/12 Electric Brixton, London, UK*
- 09/27 Float Along Festival, Sheffield, UK
- 10/09 Casino de Paris, Paris, France#
- 10/10 Stereolux, Nantes, France#
- 10/12 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands#
- 10/13 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands#
- 10/14 Gloria, Cologne, Germany#
- 10/15 Astra Kulturhaus, Berlin, Germany#
- 10/17 VEGA, Copenhagen, Denmark#
- 10/18 Fållan, Stockholm, Sweden#
- 10/19 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway#
- 10/21 Mojo Club, Hamburg, Germany#
- 10/22 Roxy, Prague, Czech Republic#
- 10/23 Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland#
- 10/25 Magazzini Generali, Milan#
- 10/26 Epicerie Moderne, Lyon, France#
- 10/28 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium#
* w/ Blondshell)
# w/ Black Country, New Road
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