Cock & Swan

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Events

FEBRUARY 9th, 2018
Cock & Swan is playing a live session on KEXP at noon on February 9th.
It's open to the public, and you can get more details about how to sign up for tickets HERE

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Info/Press

The collaborative work of longtime partners Johnny Goss and Ola Hungerford, Cock & Swan have confidently established an enveloping aesthetic with a rich catalog of studio albums, EPs, remix collections, and live soundtracks. Each release has showcased their rewarding evolution through adventurous, intricate, vocal-laced synth-pop, their sound always distinguished with an absorbing experimental touch. Consummate studio tinkerers, Cock & Swan recently relocated and upgraded their ever-expanding home studio, Dandelion Gold. Their sound palette has consequently grown to include more vivid colors and added articulation, balancing a brighter sheen with deeper darkness. It’s a sound that exists firmly in it's own hypnogogic world, at once satisfying and unsettling.

press photo for COCK AND SWAN
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Huffington Post - Best of 2013

"...with their latest effort, the band has entered the heavyweight division...Analog synths, breathy vocals, mesmerizing loops of sound combine to create one of the most enchanting records of 2013."

-Todd Cochran (Read full article here.)

KEXP Song of the Day Podcast

"There is a sincere mystery to what [Cock & Swan] produce, often using electronic-based music, musing and ethereal vocals, all wrapped is a sense of artistic (and playful?) demise."

-Jacob Uitti (Read full article here.)

City Arts - Album of the Month

"Those teenaged savants who make musical magic on the 4-track in the bedroom? Cock & Swan is what happens when they grow up."
[Cock & Swan] retain some of the experimental spirit and overdriven, tape-saturated grittiness of earlier days, which they nod to with the cassette deck boot-up that opens their third album, Secret Angles. This is the chief tension of Cock & Swan—polished dreaminess with an undercurrent of raw and weird—and what makes Secret Angles such an enduring, interesting listen."

-Joe Garvin (Read full article here.)

Paste Magazine

"Featuring the haunting vocals of Ola Hungerford and the intricate multi-instrumentalism of Johnny Goss ... Cock & Swan resemble a drugged-down, more experimental Phantogram, somehow creating an eerie harmony out of unconventional and often discordant instrumental layering."

-Ryan Bort (Read full article here.)

Releases

JULIAN'S SWORD JULIAN'S SWORD album art
DECEMBER 8TH 2017
Julian's Sword is Cock & Swan's full-length re-score for ONLY GOD FORGIVES.

DREAM ALONE DREAM ALONE album art
NOVEMBER 3RD 2017
Dream Alone is an album of handpicked selections from Cock & Swan's re-score for ONLY GOD FORGIVES. Dream Alone weaves together dynamic new studio songs alongside older previously-released songs that have been re-contextualized to fit the cinematic narrative.

SPLURGE LAND (ORIGINAL SCORE) Splurge Land album art
NOW AVAILABLE HERE
Splurge Land was created for a dance performance commissioned by On the Boards and choreographed/performed by Kate Wallich + The YC.

WHAT WAS LIFE? EP What Was Life? album art
Download Here
What Was Life? is a 3-song EP released by TAR.

RECESS TANGLE VOL. 2 Recess Tangle Vol. 2 album art
NOW AVAILABLE HERE (name-your-price)
Recess Tangle Vol. 2 is the SECOND volume of remixes from Secret Angles, with remixes by Cex, Graintable, Big Spider's Back, Snowman Plan, Suttikeeree, Chants, Stem Collector, Domokos, Brian Binning, OCnotes, Korma, and Tokyo Bloodworm.

RECESS TANGLE VOL. 1 Recess Tangle Vol. 1 album art NOW AVAILABLE HERE (name-your-price)
Recess Tangle Vol. 1 is the first volume of remixes from Secret Angles, available as a free download from Hush Hush Records on 11/5. Includes remixes by Hetrik, Kid Smpl, IG88, DJAO, William Ryan Fritch, Braxton/Palmer, Little Weather, Hudson Alexander, WD4D, Cex, Brian Binning, and Lam Suet.

SECRET ANGLES by Cock & Swan Secret Angles album art
DOWNLOAD HERE (name your price)
VINYL INFO:
We also have a limited number of vinyl records available here.

SHAPES IN THE SHEEN EP Shapes in the Sheen EP album artDOWNLOAD HERE
Shapes in the Sheen is a re-imagining of songs by local Northwest artists, with instrumentals/backing vocals by Cock & Swan and new performances by the original vocalists.

MOONCHILL EP Moonchill EP album artDOWNLOAD HERE
Moonchill is an EP by Cock & Swan constructed from samples of "Moonchild" by King Crimson.

STASH by Cock & Swan Stash album art
Downloads / Limited Edition CDs from Lost Tribe Sound
Limited Edition comes in a hand-aged, hand-stitched cloth-bound book and is lined with banana bark, lokta, and mulberry paper. Also includes bonus tracks, remixes, and download of album.
Standard Edition CD package and download are also available.

Older releases are available here.

Videos

More videos on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/cockandswan/videos