Kevin Bronson on March 27th, 2013

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The bulletin here is not that Cotillon went off to Mexico, had an adventure and lived to tell about it; it’s that the L.A. trio survived all the “beer, waves, tequila, Federales, mariachis, dancers, donkeys, drinkable water (or lack thereof), dogs, donkeys that looked like zebras, pot, prescription meds, mariachis, and street kids” to make a sharp new EP. The band – Jordan Corso, Zach Miller and Michael Medeiros – dish out six loose-fitting slabs of surf-garage rock on their new “White Roses” EP. They were abetted by Ryan Hailey, Samuel Jacob Lopez Jr., David Joseph and producer Mark Rains (Lael Neale, Barrie Rose and David Dennis all chip in with guest vocals) on the new EP. And while it’d be easy to lump “White Roses” with a lot of the seemingly interchangeable garage-rockers flying the flag of the past, few are asking “Where we will be in 30 years? / Where do we go when we die? / How far will we grow apart?,” as these guys do in “Convenience.” Then, there’s that trumpet on “Tiajuana” …

||| Download: “Convenience”

||| Previously: “Votive Flower” EP.

||| Live: Cotillon plays April 2 at Harvard & Stone (with Black Apples Tapioca & the Flea) and April 21 at the Bootleg Bar (with Vinyl Williams, Tapioca & the Flea and the Futures League).