Nothing Belongs To Anything
A Tant Réver du Roi/Grabuge, 2020
9/10
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A Paris quartet who are very much in tune with some of the best music to come out of U.S. from the mid ‘90s, Cosse offer us 5 tunes here where parallels to legends like Sonic Youth or Slint aren’t too far off.
The curious album leads with the atmospheric “Welcome Newcomers”, where shimmering post-rock ideas are met with a post-punk quality as darker moments of loud versus soft dynamics are present, and “Pin Skin” continues the trend with a jagged, subdued delivery that builds into a dense execution of crashing percussion and noisey guitars before retreating back to calm.
The back half of the listen is equally inviting, including the meticulous “Seppuku”, that can get both quaint and pretty as well as intense and dynamic with its superb playing, and “The Ground” exits the listen with a turbulent display of angular guitar work that eventually works its way up to a screechy, sonically challenging finish to a blistering, captivating effort.
Amazingly, this is Cosse’s first EP and it’s nothing short of fascinating. If bands associated with the Touch and Go record label or the 2nd wave of early ‘90s emo still resonate with you, Cosse will be your new infatuation.
Travels well with: Unwound- Repetition; Shellac- 1000 Hurts