{"id":27296,"date":"2017-11-07T12:13:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27296"},"modified":"2017-11-06T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T00:27:15","slug":"nycs-cup-share-apparition-hiccup-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27296","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s Cup share ‘Apparition’ from ‘Hiccup’ LP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cup\"Brooklyn’s Cup to release ‘Hiccup’ LP via Aagoo Records and have shared the Apparition<\/em> video.<\/p>\n

Aagoo Records<\/a> has announced the coming release of the new full-length album ‘Hiccup’<\/a> from New York City-based artist CUP<\/a>. It will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally on November 10, 2017. Cup is\u00a0Tym Wojcik, who is originally from Houston, Texas, but currently lives in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n

Cup is Wojcik’s reaction to a lifetime of being forced to play rhythm guitar parts. A combination of power chords, repeated endlessly, while Tym’s brother smashed on his Boss Metal Zone and did his best Cobain meets Slash impression, or a series of oddly shaped jazz chords, played at a rhythm that was never perfectly right for his dad to solo over.<\/p>\n

While ‘Hiccup’ is technically Cup’s seventh release, it feels like its first, the others more artifacts that can be looked back on, marking a progression in sound that has become distinctly a thing of its own. Fuzz-soaked punk riffs that feel like they should be played faster, stretching and skewing into off-kilter melodies over driving dual rhythms. Songs about the fact of the body, the fact of existing, the challenge of conveying meaning. A background of anxiety throughout: a reflection of our odd world and oddly, incomprehensibly growing older in it.<\/p>\n

The result is an album that both comforts and unsettles you, that kisses you on the forehead while punching you in the stomach, that is both floating in the clouds and slowly sinking in the pond. It’s the immediate laugh before realizing that a joke was actually incredibly sad. This is the space that Cup tries to occupy, and ‘Hiccup’ is just the latest attempt to get it done.<\/p>\n

The band has also revealed their new video for\u00a0Apparition<\/em>, following hot on the tracks of the video for\u00a0‘Yr Freaking Out’.<\/a>\u00a0The new video was directed and animated by Sean McAnulty<\/a>, a stopmotion \/claymation artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Watch it via YouTube below.<\/p>\n