D/B Recommended: COUGAR / Friday, 16 OCT 2009 @ Privatclub Berlin

Cougar’s instrumental arrangements fall somewhere between Four Tet, Fugazi, and Nick Drake’s guitar work, albeit optimistic as opposed to morose.
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[audio: stay_famous.mp3]

The band’s singular sound is rooted in a keen sensibility of form and texture, more in line with sample-based music and modern classical than indie rock – which isn’t to say this is rock-as-academia – Cougar also invoke the roaring riff monster, the fist-in-the-air, anthemic head-banger to which so many groups give only an ironic nod. The debut album Law mixed with John McEntire of Tortoise.
‘Melodically lush, rhythmically compelling…gloriously precise and urgent.’ – The Wire Magazin. D/B Artist Feature: https://www.digitalinberlin.de/cougar LIVE @ Privatclub c/o Weltrestaurant Markthalle / Pücklerstrasse 34 / 10997 Berlin. Highly Recommeded Event!

COUGAR / Patriot EPK
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=5TxD__bo1Uo

Cougar’s second album, the forthcoming Patriot (August 17th on Counter), is an aggressive, narrative affair that sees the band reach even greater extremes than on Law. The epic, sparkling counterpoint of the first record crops up, but Patriot firmly establishes itself as a different music shredding the lines between electronic, rock and modern, one that never forgets to pay allegiance to the hook. If an album of new music raises the question, “What kind of band IS this?” then perhaps the artist is doing their job. Urgent, captivating and strangely moving: emergency rock.
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[audio: 01 Atlatl.mp3]

http://www.cougarsound.com | http://www.privatclub-berlin.de | http://www.myspace.com/cougarsound

Tour Dates:

01. Okt. 2009      20:00
Hoxton (Counter Night)     London
02. Okt. 2009     20:00
Revo @ Korova     Liverpool
03. Okt. 2009     20:00
Sugar Club     Dublin
04. Okt. 2009     20:00
Captains Rest     Glasgow
05. Okt. 2009     20:00
Sneaky Pete’s     Edinburgh
06. Okt. 2009     20:00
Start The Bus     Bristol
07. Okt. 2009     20:00
Batofar     Paris
08. Okt. 2009     20:00
Sous Soul     Bern
09. Okt. 2009     20:00
Mariaberg     Rorschach
11. Okt. 2009     20:00
MTC     Koln
12. Okt. 2009     20:00
Schocken     Stuttgart
13. Okt. 2009     20:00
AB Club     Brussels
14. Okt. 2009     20:00
Democracy     Gent
15. Okt. 2009     20:00
Gruner Jager     Hamburg
16. Okt. 2009     20:00
Privat Club     Berlin
18. Okt. 2009     20:00
Ampere     Munich
19. Okt. 2009     20:00
Den Atelier (w/ Maximo Park)     Luxembourg
20. Okt. 2009     20:00
Grabenhalle (w/ Maximo Park) – SOLD OUT     St. Gallen
21. Okt. 2009     20:00
Jericho     Oxford
22. Okt. 2009     20:00
Chantry Social Club     Canterbury
23. Okt. 2009     20:00
Lexington     London