Stream: Cosmonauts, ‘Medio Litro’

Zane Roessell on March 13th, 2019

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“We’ll go to the party if we can find parking.”

“We’ll go to the show, but we don’t have any money”

“Not far, if you don’t mind walking.”

Sound familiar? You would think this was a collection of “Overheard In L.A.” quotables, and it is — in a way. However, coming as the opening croon of Cosmonauts latest single “Medio Litro” makes it all just a little too real.

Following the February release of “Seven Sisters, “Medio Litro” is the latest single off Cosmonauts’ upcoming fifth album “Star 69,” out April 26 on Burger Records, and their latest transmission since 2016’s “A-OK!” Formed in 2009 by guitarists Derek Cowart and Alexander Ahmadi in Orange County, the psyched-out avengers bonded over their mutual love for the interminable melodies of Spacemen 3, Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Since 2010 they’ve been cranking out their signature, ear-bleeding loud, all-killer-no-filler amalgam of psych-punk. The secret? No pedals, just vintage amps turned up past 11.

The track’s ragged, garaged-out shoegaze serves as the perfect vehicle to catalog the disdain of being a band in L.A., with vocal duties shared between Ahmadi and Cowart as they trade off on a litany of grievances. It’s a sound that any Cosmonauts fan is sure to embrace: disaffected vocals, thrumming baseline and effervescent guitars that squall at the drop of a dime. Though they play it off with their languid delivery, “Medio Litro” is a clever track, and, if you’ve spent enough time on the Echo back patio, hilarious.

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