Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic One thing current ‘Straightforward Peeler’ from forthcoming album ‘Miffed’ on Trapped Animal.
Style-fluid rock trio from London channel their internal punk on manic rollercoaster of a brand new music… and take Ged Babey’s breath away.
Three lengthy years in the past I raved about Jemma Freeman and the Cosmic One thing and their debut album.
Helen Is A Reptile was the only greatest observe and video of the 12 months 2019. A scaley, explosive glam horrorshow.
The ‘A Matter of Life & Loss of life’ interview with them was, and nonetheless is, extraordinary, telling their story with painful honesty. As was the piece on the astounding Black Rain video.
Let’s get this this straight; the Cosmic One thing aren’t ‘a punk band’. They’re Jemma (Drag King alter-ego Jeff onstage) a extremely unique songwriter and expert guitarist and collector of effects-pedals with, at the moment Samuel Nicholson (bass) and Jason Ribeiro (drums). They play a progressive glam, psych, pop, soul music however this, Straightforward Peeler (and far of the forthcoming album) is inadvertently and intuitively Punk Rock.
It rages and has a downhill with out brakes momentum. Try to sing this, THAT quick!
Made in England,
Made up trash,
Made up nonsense,
Made up class
Made up construction,
Made up farce
Incest tradition
Crashing automobiles,
Deleting feedback,
Crammed with disgrace,
Retell my story,
My dead-name,
Vomit coleslaw,
Pilfering scum,
It’s my opinion that you just’re executed!
Sorry (Jemma), however regardless of a obscure kinship to Cool Hand Lukes ‘I can eat 50 eggs’ I’m not that keen on the video.
The music nonetheless is fuckin’ wonderful! I can hear ‘Don’t Dictate’ and ‘Younger Savage’ in there (songs the band have little question by no means heard) and am in no way shocked to learn the recording was live-in-the-studio.
Jemma explains that the music was born out of a warm-up jam in a rehearsal,
“it’s a factor of pure unadulterated fury at brexiteers, the patriarchy, anti-vaxers, terfs and royalists, with exasperation directed at late evening on-line social media discourse dressed up as debate that’s truly simply pessimistic, shallow bigotry.
Straightforward Peelers are a sort of fruit specifically bred for the pores and skin to be simply eliminated. I just like the symmetry of the title with the thin-skinned critics of so referred to as snowflake tradition. The vitriolic supply a testomony to the unimaginable futility you may really feel as only one small particular person in an ocean of vacuous impossibility.
And regardless of the press launch describing the sound as: “Led Zeppelin fronted by Madonna”. It’s not. Extra Cyndi Lauper going loopy with a band made up of Nirvana and the Useless Kennedys.
A shocking, adrenaline-packed single from an album which is able to blow you away…
Stay Dates
14th October, London – The Victoria Dalston (Get in Her Ears)
fifth November, Bristol – The Dice
ninth November, London – The Lexington
Taken from the brand new album Miffed out twenty fifth November 2022 on Trapped Animal Data.
All phrases Ged Babey. Press launch content material in italics. Photograph Credit score: Suzi Corker
