Cold Showers Release 'Strength In Numbers' EP

In October of 2020, exhausted by isolation, Cold Showers singer Jonathan Weil proposed the band pack their cars full of gear, rent a house in the desert wilderness of Joshua Tree, and record a new EP.

Guitarist Chris King credits the freedom of escaping the city and its distractions for the collection's looser, liberated mood: "The world seemed so bleak that making something lighter felt right." Once a makeshift studio was assembled, they took turns throwing riffs, ideas, and "half-dead demos" into the ring, democratically workshopping them in the spirit of the band's egoless mantra: "Best idea wins."

True to its title, these songs transcend the sum of their parts, born of the group's uniquely interwoven collaborative process, with each member writing different parts across every instrument: "We deconstruct a song to its best elements, then rebuild it from there." This 'rip it up and start again' method incrementally refines each track to its poetic essence, until, as King puts it, "the song seems to come more from the ether than from us."

Although Cold Showers have cycled through an array of line-ups since forming in 2010, Strength In Numbers sounds like a band squarely in their prime, still ripening into ever more reflective and rarified states. King cites their shared simple maxim for continuing: "As long as it feels honest." It feels far more than that. In the swirling, arpeggiated depths of "Sliver" - a song so elusive they've been trying to record it since 2015 - a shredded, shrouded guitar solo curls into the clouds and slowly decays, framing a couplet that hints at the group's enduring, elemental presence: "there's no coming back / as if mountains could move / lay me on broken glass / next to a picture of you."

Strength In Numbers is out today across all digital platforms via Dais Records. Listen to the new EP here:

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