Video premiere: Cosmo Gold, ‘Tuff Stuff’

Kevin Bronson on June 16th, 2022

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Since L.A trio Cosmo Gold last released music — their 2019 EP “Waiting on the City,” highlighted by the singles “Drown the Fly” and “Dark Matter” — the universe has been a chaotic place.

So they’ve created an alternate one, and fortunately it has music, too. In fact, “Krong” is music — it’s Cosmo Gold’s debut album, arriving this fall.

If Cosmo Gold is to be believed, during the pandemic they were kidnapped by a group of pyramid-dwellers for accidentally stumbling on the secrets of an ancient universe. We’re not saying that didn’t happen; if the past couple of years have done anything, it’s warp what we used to consider truth.

Anyway, here’s the video for the album’s first single, “Tuff Stuff.” It finds singer Emily Gold — “the last girl in L.A. to quit smoking” — having a strange encounter of the “Krong” kind. It’s highly recommended for alien-lovers and those who are curious about what’s at the top of a pyramid.

As for the song, it’s a driving pop bop featuring Gold’s golden vocals and with beats and trippy synths as accelerants. Is there a dancefloor at the top of the pyramid? Must be. Fans of Haim and old sci-fi movies may want jump in the transporter with “Tuff Stuff.”

The album was produced by the trio along with Neil Wogensen (Valley Queen) and mixed by Jason Kingsland (Deerhunter, Belle & Sebastian). Cosmo Gold had teased the project with an online set in the fall of 2020, which followed something even weirder than an alien abduction: an interview in the middle of the street in Echo Park [skip to the 7:35 mark].

||| Watch: The video for “Tuff Stuff”