Description
28th November
The Red Cords
VILE GUY
Limited Edition 7” Extended Play E.P 300 copies only !!
Ears101 5060174957697
Side One
1. Smog
2. Scratch It Off
3. Toby Lerone
Side Two
1. No Place
2. Workout
3. Vile Guy
Brand new E.P from Falmouth’s frenetic Red Cords.
Jack Whately (verified owner) –
FAR OUT MAGAZINE
Entrenched in Garage rock Falmouth boys The Red Cords are painted with punk strokes and that resonates no more clearly than when ‘Vile Guy’ bursts out your speakers. For that reason it has to be Wednesday’s Track of the Day. Fuck you Wednesday.
The band are timeless in their approach. Simply put, it is about the spirit of the sound not the craft of how you get there and with that said ‘Vile Guy’ attacks a scourge of the modern age with adept analogue skill.
Tackling the lack of human contact people have with each other in modern society, excelled by the fact they spend most of their time with pixels in their eyes, the band astutely address a social problem with fury and fun, smashing guitar chords over the rhythm like a pisshead dropping his pint.
‘Vile Guy’ hits all the right notes and hits them hard like a smoked out pneumatic drill from a Pixar film, pulsating and furious, slightly unpredictable but incredibly loveable.
DIY Magazine (verified owner) –
Every weekday, DIY’s new music know-it-all Neu brings you one essential new release to get obsessed with. Today’s Neu Pick comes from The Red Cords.
Falmouth’s The Red Cords could have stepped out of a sticky floored, dingy bar from any of the last three decades. There’s a punk-embellished spirit linking up their every move, but on latest track ‘Vile Guy’, there’s a very present day concern.
“I need to fill my days sometimes,” the three-piece bark in a nonchalant but attention-grabbing fever. With a handful of chords and enough spirit, they speak about a boredom creeping into the life of every teen aimlessly staring at their phone, wondering what’s around the corner. The cure, it turns out, is a swift play of the group’s hellraising, latest cut. It’s premiering below on DIY.
Tags: Neu Pick, Premiere
WAX MUSIC UK (verified owner) –
LOOK EVERYONE, IT’S THE RED CORDS!
Across their first two EPs, the dick-dastardly trio from Falmouth cemented themselves as forerunners in emphatic garage-punk, filled with snotty attitude and a surprisingly laid-back melodic charm. With their upcoming third, ‘Vile Guy‘, and the release of it’s title-track, Charlie, Ry and Matt have returned sharper and with even more bite, whilst retaining everything that made us put posters of them up on our bedroom walls in the first place.
An insistent closing track to the EP, ‘Vile Guy’, makes vehemence and negative perception sound so damn catchy. Ry Cleave’s now famous melodic bass-lines are imperative to this, making the need for bands to have second guitarists seem irrelevant as he glides around the bridge of the track. Murph’s guitar remains as cutting and incisive, preserving that bright, exuberant nature that bounces along for it’s three minute duration.
In making a few defined tweaks in their progression from the early EPs, The Cords seem in less of a hurry to leave – enjoying making the most of their snotty harmonies and short-but-oh-so-sweet instrumental builds. The sudden change of pace through to the chanted final calling displays the band’s ability to find harmony in controlled hooks and erratic tension.
Impassioned, Murph drawls out his potent statement, a contrasting mix of heated tone and careless freedom. “There’s going to be bad days / there might be bad times // you need to change your ways sometimes.” the band always put across a sense of ease, whether feeling positively or otherwise. Whether seen as someone needing to change or a dose of self-introspection, the group hit home with intent.
As punk as they come, but with all the elements to truly dig deep into your mind, ‘Vile Guy’ is The Red Cords’ declaration of intent. Like them or not, they won’t care, they are having too much fun doing this for it to even matter.
The Red Cords are set to play Wax Music’s Second Birthday on the 4th December. For more information, head here.
TrakMARX (verified owner) –
Fresh from a storming set at the recent Princess Pavilions throwdown, the Red Cords third EP, ‘Vile Guy’ storms in on Easy Action Records with the trio’s customary kinetic urgency. Issued on a tasty slab of vinyl, the six-track set is a lean exercise in perpetual motion.
Opening with the oblique assault of ‘Smog’, the true spirit of punk rock is evident from the get-go gecko; there’s no formula, everything is permissible. This cut finds the ascetic precision of Wire dragged through the grit of the garage, before ‘Scratch It Off’ picks up the momentum, twisting and spasming like a sonic marlin, impaled upon its own irresistible hooks – the missing link between the Monks and the Buzzcocks,
The side is rounded out by its standout track, as the semi-episodic ‘Toby Lerone’ encapsulates all the many qualities that make the Red Cords so vital, smashing in with immediacy and instant appeal deriving from a lead line that embeds itself deep into the consciousness. Bass takes over for ‘No Place’ as the Cords press their faces against the glass, staring in from the Albert Camus/Colin Wilson perspectives. Further four-string action propels churning instrumental, ‘Work Out’, which combines tribal rhythms with a mesmeric coruscating guitar.
The EP reaches its peak with its eponymous cut. Possibly the Red Cords’ finest recorded moment to date alongside last year’s unstoppable ‘Punk Eye’, ‘Vile Guy’ is a glorious cacophony of expertly channelled abandon. An established live favourite, it skitters and bounces toward its celebratory coda that sees Charlie channel the lyrical spirit of Jonathan Richman.