Cress by Cogwheel
"With ghostly influences ranging from Benjamin Britten to Nirvana via Tom Cora, Cogwheel Dogs carve our deep string drone folk-rock with memorably emotive tunes. Any band who uses an egg slicer as a harp has got to be worth a listen, right?"
Flux, October 2009
"The twin forces of Mosley's bewitching voice, which can go from little girl lost to demented she-devil like the flick of a switch (often in the space of the same song), and Parnell's unrestrained, ultra-distorted cello are the band's strongest weapons. On opening song Kitchen, the two combine to create a sinister, menacing atmosphere that hangs around the EP like a morning fog that won't quite lift."
Drowned in Sound, August 2009
"Kitchen is so full of sound that you'll double check that you don't have two different tracks playing simultaneously. Power In paper is the EP highlight, a pensive cello-bolstered drama ... Greenhorn is an edgy, untrustworthy record ..."
Artrocker, August 2009
"Rebecca Mosley [flits] between tender melodies and PJ Harvey-esque growling while Tom Parnell [litters] the music with spasmodic episodes of frantic, screeching cello ... gleefully taking a chainsaw to a bowl of trifle at a chilren's party."
The Skinny, August 2009
"... music that tip toes through the daisies one minute and is slashing at the pretty little flowers with a big spade the next ... [Cogwheel Dogs] are going places."
Review of Cress – My New Favourite Band, July 08
"Murkily intriguing sketches of domestic horror and emotional ferocity, evocative of childhood nightmares spilling from dark places."
Wears The Trousers, August 2009
"Tom's cello scrapes and wheezes obnoxiously around Rebecca's more tenderly-strummed melody."
Review of Cress – Nightshift, March 08
"... primitivism of the most beautiful sort ... Cogwheel Dogs are set to become one of the most exciting bands to come out of the underground in years."
Review of Cress – Junkmedia, June 08
"[Cress sounds like] the lovechild of Polly Harvey and Captain Beefheart, with Shostakovich as godfather. [In Ghostwriter,] Rebecca reveals her versatility, singing in a limpid, blanched style redolent of Sinead O'Connor ... bleakly wonderful."
Review of Cress – Oxfordbands.com, March 08
Tracklist
| 1. | Cress | 2:33 |
| 2. | Ghostwriter | 2:06 |
| 3. | Anticoagulant | 2:27 |
Credits
Tom Parnell - Cello/Drums
Rebecca M - Guitar/Vocals
License
All rights reserved.
'Cogwheel' is a pseudonym for artist and songwriter Rebecca M and collaborators. (She is also in the band Cogwheel Dogs).