{"id":35479,"date":"2021-01-22T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35479"},"modified":"2023-04-06T23:00:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T03:00:45","slug":"coma-girls-share-new-single-wedding-roses-announce-new-ep-skyboxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35479","title":{"rendered":"Coma Girls share new single \u2018Wedding Roses\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;Los Angeles folk-rock\/psych project Coma Girls are preparing to release their&nbsp;new EP,&nbsp;\u2018Skyboxer\u2019. The band have released a new single &amp; video, <em>Wedding Roses<\/em>.&nbsp;\u2018<em>Skyboxer<\/em>\u2019 is&nbsp;out&nbsp;January&nbsp;29&nbsp;via Baby Robot Records.&nbsp;Watch the video for <em>Wedding Roses<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bkghnx_N9qw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Moments into Coma Girls\u2019 self-titled debut album, on the jangly opening anthem <em>Car Alarms<\/em>, ringleader Chris Spino announces, as if through a megaphone: \u201c<em>And the world\u2026 The world is a giant casino.\u201d<\/em> 5 years later, the L.A. rockers are still making ambitious and colorful music, but reality has settled in. They\u2019re offering \u2018Skyboxer\u2019, an extravagant yet complex EP that\u2019s given up gambling and instead chooses to face life head-on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coma Girls formed in 2014 in Atlanta, and they\u2019ve since come a long way and travelled through a myriad of sonic (and geographical) territories to get to where they are now. After Spino sold his belongings and moved to L.A. with a backpack full of clothes and a guitar, he was committing himself to music wholly as if in marriage. \u201c<em>Music is always the best therapy for me,\u201d<\/em> he says, though that\u2019s fairly clear in his songs\u2014the urgency and the vitality are palpable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their debut received praise from <em>Immersive<\/em> for \u201c<em>show[ing] a surprising unity and identity,\u201d<\/em> and \u2018Skyboxer\u2019 takes that to the next level. Featuring an all-star cast of Spino\u2019s friends, the EP watches his ideas manifest through the talent of seven other musicians as well as his own: Spino himself on vocals, guitar &amp; piano; Travis Popichak on drums; Marvin Figueroa on bass; Dan Gee on keys; Adam Laidlaw on guitar; Michika Skyy on backing vocals; and Connor \u201cCatfish\u201d Gallaher, whose talents can be heard on records from The Black Lips, Tim Heidecker &amp; Weyes Blood, and more on pedal steel. Producing, engineering, and mixing is Tomas Dolas (Oh Sees, SASAMI, Mr. Elevator and the Brain Hotel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cIt really turns into a sonic circus,\u201d Spino says of the EP. Though Coma Girls have never subscribed to a specific genre, its heart has always belonged to pop\u2014Spino\u2019s guilty pleasure. It explains the catchy, indulgent atmosphere of their self-titled LP; on \u2018Skyboxer\u2019, however, it\u2019s not as evident. <em>\u201cI think this is an effort to bend that a little bit and push it into territory that gets stranger and feels bigger and explores different sounds,\u201d<\/em> Spino says, and then adds: \u201c<em>but it also retains what Coma Girls has always been about\u2014pop songs.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country twang comes through in songs like <em>Pasadena<\/em> and <em>Wedding Roses<\/em>. Spino\u2019s love for folk spans all the way from Bob Dylan to Conor Oberst, and these wistful ballads reflect the melancholic nature of the genre as the lyrics reckon with the complications of being human. \u201c<em>I had a lot of depression sink in,\u201d<\/em> Spino says about his time spent travelling back and forth between his new home in L.A. and his family in Georgia during the making of this EP. There were funerals, heart attacks, old lovers, unsettled issues\u2014a whirlwind of serious shit that transformed Coma Girls from a carefree party into an introspective journey. The songs are still striking\u2014and when Spino describes them, he can\u2019t stop using the adjective \u201cbig\u201d\u2014because the emotions are colossal, and the energy intense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With his orchestra of friends, Spino was not alone in his musical ruminations. \u201c<em>We were able to explore each song differently,\u201d<\/em> he says, \u201c<em>but give it a common thread as well.\u201d<\/em> This collective way of creating yields a diverse, powerful piece of art that anyone can listen to or relate to. \u201c<em>It\u2019s supposed to take you places,\u201d<\/em> he says. \u201c<em>It\u2019s more like a form of escapism.\u201d \u2018<\/em>Skyboxer\u2019 offers nearly 17 minutes of a safe hideaway from reality, where the listener can drift through a new, all-encompassing world.\u00a0The upside to the national lockdown is that it\u2019s forced everyone into a meditative state, which Spino appreciates greatly. With clean time and therapy, he became more articulate and ready to create than ever. <em>\u201cIt\u2019s not conducive to my creativity to be up until the sun comes up every day,\u201d<\/em> he explains. \u201c<em>I\u2019ve done more in the past six months than I have in the past five years. I\u2019ve been insanely productive.\u201d<\/em> After this EP, there\u2019s a lot more to come from Coma Girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&nbsp;Los Angeles folk-rock\/psych project Coma Girls are preparing to release their&nbsp;new EP,&nbsp;\u2018Skyboxer\u2019. 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