Nots have released their new album ‘Cosmetic’ via Heavenly Recordings. This record follows the bands debut album ‘We Are Nots.’ Second full-length statement from Memphis’ Nots, ‘Cosmetic’ fearlessly attacks the rough edges between desire, deceit, appearance and reality. Not chanting down Babylon, Natalie Hoffmann screams straight into its face.
Nots are still a wild guitar band, but above and below the guitar, bass and drum pound, Alexandra Eastburn’s analog synth blurps melodies and nonsense, teasing squiggles of freedom which defy the false grid of modern life. Cosmetic? Emetic? “Monotone Lust” indeed. With Hoffmann on guitar & vocals, Eastburn on synth, Charlotte Watson beating drums, and Meredith Lones steering a solid path through the chaos on bass, Nots are neither content with the smug “stare at your shoes” approach of bands from both coasts, nor an Earth-hugging “we need to get back to nature” hippie copout. There might not be any answers here. That might be the point. Nots have arrived at the next level of their attack with a confidence and a music that lays waste to the wasteland without romantic attachment to a thing.
Recorded with Keith Cooper and Andrew McCalla in Memphis. Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering. Album Art by Natalie Hoffmann. Take a listen to Inherently Low via Soundcloud below, which is lifted from the album.
Track listing
- Black Reflection
- Rat King
- Cold Line
- New Structures
- Cosmetic
- No Novelty
- Inherently Low
- Flourescent Sunset
- Entertain Me
