Cel­e­brat­ing 10 years as a record­ing project, Hel­lo Cos­mos return with a flur­ry of activ­i­ty. They are back with a refreshed line­up and a lead track called Grind into the Shrine. There’s a sec­ond stu­dio album on the way for release some­time in autumn. Check out their live shows too.

Grind into the Shrine is the first sin­gle, com­bin­ing sear­ing post-punk and sneer­ing lyri­cism It’s a pow­er­house of a track, a dia­tribe set against a noise-rock rum­ble of fierce drums and thick buzzing instru­men­ta­tion. It’s also fun and will set the mosh pit on fire.

Says front man Ben Robin­son: “The sin­gle is about adult­ing, par­ent­ing and look­ing for those slim moments of par­adise that take a lot of the dai­ly grind to find. It’s about not let­ting the world get on top of you and find­ing the time to live, to get out of the house and cel­e­brate life… Life can be so vis­cer­al if you get off your arse and go enjoy it. It’s lit­er­al­ly there wait­ing for you. As with most my lyrics I’m telling myself this as much as any­one else.” 

Come Out Tonight set for release this Autumn, is the band’s sopho­more album fea­tur­ing a host of col­lab­o­ra­tors. Stu­dio record­ing ses­sions took place in New York City, Los Ange­les, Kam­pala, Leeds, Stock­port and Man­ches­ter. and pro­duced by Jamie Lock­hert at Green­mount Stu­dios in Leeds.

Ben Robin­son talks about the album: “It is about find­ing the strength to switch off dig­i­tal screens and go out and live. It’s becom­ing more and more nor­malised to stay in, comatosed by ultra­processed food and algo­rithms fir­ing shal­low dopamine hits, keep­ing us all hooked on a short wave­length, grad­u­al­ly becom­ing dumb­er, hope­less and unhealthy… We all need to wake each oth­er up, get off the cool aid of dig­i­tal apps, social media and algo­rith­mic scrolling.”

Hel­lo Cos­mos is made up of: leader and cre­ative force Ben Robin­son (co-founder of Kendal Call­ing & blue­dot) and his broth­er Simon (drums), strings/synths Angela Chan (Place­bo / Lanterns on the Lake). New to the project are bassist/percussionist Isaac Dob­son and gui­tarist Alex Beston, sax/synth whizz Frankie Pigeon and har­mon­i­ca play­er Oli Brown. Gui­tarist Adri­an Ing­ham still fea­tures prominently.

HELLO COSMOS – LIVE DATES
Oct 10th Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
Oct 11th Brew­ery Arts Cen­tre, Kendal (w/ spe­cial guests Sev­en Seals)
Oct 13th YES Pink Room, Manchester 

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Grind into the Shrine release date 22nd August via Cos­mic Glue
Album Come out Tonight com­ing soon…