Take a listen to 'Seasonal' on clear red cassette limited to a run of 50. Handmade in Chicago.
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T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album
The Crow artwork. Design is on the back and our logo is on the front.
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'Dead by Dawn' Long Sleeve
T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album
Evil dead inspired shirt in the style of our favorite 90's death metal bands. 2-3 week wait while they're handmade by @colourtrax on Comfort Colors blanks
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Limited Edition 'Seasonal' Blue Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Blue edition of our 'Seasonal' EP, limited to 5 and will not be reprinted in this color again.
Includes unlimited streaming of Seasonal
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album
Original drawing of a tender moment laid onto a Pepper Black Comfort Colors tee.
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
edition of 30
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about
Old Coke is a Chicago-based band focused on pushing the boundaries of heavy shoegaze by incorporating a wealth of sonic genres and elements with wall of sound guitars mixed with dreamy, melancholic vocals and driving drums.
Throughout 2022 Old Coke gained traction from a set of impressively tight and high-octane live shows that saw them move from playing DIY generator gigs to iconic Chicago venues like Empty Bottle, Bottom Lounge, Sub T and Schubas with bands such as Ringo Deathstarr, Gleemer, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, and Slow Crush to name a few.
Their debut EP Sorted has already clocked praise from revered underground publications Cvlt Nation and New Noise Magazine who will be premiering the first single “Vapor Drunk” on April 13th.
“Seasonal” is their most emotionally charged and musically ambitious project to date. A journey that weaves between lovers and loss, where tracks such as ‘Coffee Eyes’ are about doing psychedelics with a girlfriend in lockdown, ‘Suntinged’ reflects on a California summer heartbreak, and ‘Vapor Drunk’ being a light love letter in song form”
The percussion on the EP was once again recorded by Joe Gac of the Chicago indie band Meat Wave, mixed by Zac Montez who’s worked with acts such as Cloakroom and Whirr, and mastered by Gleemer's Corey Coffman, who has recorded an impressive list of the West Coast shoegaze’s finest such as Modern Color, Soft Blue Shimmer and Milly.
On percussion, drummer Ethan Toenjes beats away the nuanced fills with stylistic percussion at a feverish pace. Guitarist/vocalist Christopher Ruiz's loud and emotive songwriting riffs on future nostalgia, romance and human connection. At the same time, his melancholic vocals balance the big guitar tone and colourful chords with aggression and thrashiness found in heavier genres.
The name was inspired by bottles of Coke modified by contemporary Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles on display at the London Tate Modern that hid political statements on the bottles, one of which taught civilians how to make Molotov cocktails.
Their debut EP, "Sorted", echoed Old Coke's anarchic-inspired moniker by seeing the band's multihyphenated talents run at full throttle. They worked alongside Joe Gac and Dylan Baldi (Cloud Nothings) to help craft the songwriting and final project. Whilst showcasing a varied sonic range from shoegaze, dream pop, punk and noise rock that has quickly evolved and leveled up to the technically dynamic and energetic live performances you will witness from Old Coke in 2023.
lyrics
It's in the air, the scent of all the things you do
And I know that I want to do with you is gaze out
At the stars and lay with you any night.
Can I stay here for a few, then head out?
I'm hanging on to you red
I'm vapor drunk with you
How I wish that we were there right now.
I'm vapor drunk with you
I spit out, it only decays
I wish that it could replay
credits
from Seasonal,
track released April 14, 2023
Vocals + Guitars Recorded by Christopher Ruiz
Drums Recorded by Joe Gac
Mixed by Zac Montez
Mastered by Corey Coffman
One of the most unsettling albums i have heard in a while. Chat Pile creates a grotesque blend of noise and groove that brings me back everytime. scarface6204
