CoCo and the Butterfields have shared the video for their upcoming single and EP title track, ‘Monsters’, ahead of the EP’s release on May 24, as well as sharing details of an exciting house party gig competition.   

Featuring footage from their recent tour with Blue October, the video showcases their unique, energetic and characterful performance, and comes ahead of the release of the single on Friday, and the release of the EP the following week.

The band have also announced an exciting competition giving fans a chance to win a gig in their home. Fans can enter the competition by sharing the new ‘Monsters’ video on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

The track is the third to be taken from their upcoming EP, Monsters, following the release of previous singles ‘Animals’ and ‘Puppets’. The EP was previously released as an acoustic collection of tracks and has now been re-recorded as a fully orchestrated representation of the band’s creative evolution since their conception six years ago.

UK HEADLINE TOUR

October

3rd – London, Islington Assembly Hall

4th – Oxford, O2 Academy

5th – Nottingham, The Bodega Social Club

6th – Birmingham, O2 Academy 3

9th – Southampton, The 1865

10th – Brighton, The Hope & Ruin

11th – Honiton, The Beehive

16th – Norwich, Open

17th – Sheffield, O2 Academy 2

18th – Manchester, Gullivers

19th – Glasgow, The Hug and Pint

November

1st – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach

2nd – Bristol, Thekla

3rd – Plymouth, The Junction

Live at Kulak’s Woodshed is the new, brief but breathless, live recording from Cloud (Tyler Taormina). Recorded during the Plays With Fire period, that acclaimed album offered nine songs and 32 minutes of quiet optimism and greying nostalgia, mixing the wide-eyed naïveté of Jonathan Richman with the cold-weather pop of Yo La Tengo and the fractured soundscapes of Galaxie 500.

This three piece recording sees Taormina perform “Happer’s Laugh” and “Comet Happer” alongside powerful stripped down renditions of classic Comfort Songs material, ‘Authorless Novel’ and ‘Mother Sea’. The live album is accompanied by a high quality multi-camera video of the full set in this gorgeously strange performance space in Northern Hollywood. The video will be free to watch on YouTube and Bandcamp.

“Live at Kulak’s Woodshed is almost literally the only document of the band’s live performance. The bizarre and enchanting studio space in Valley Village was equipped with a five camera setup involving jibs, sliders and a small camera crew around the woodshed. We invited a few friends to come to the recording process and had prepared a set featuring tunes from Comfort Songs, Plays with Fire, and the few remaining songs yet to be released. Other acts including Oren Pine and Mines Falls played as well that night creating a cozy, friendly atmosphere. The recordings for Cloud’s set were mixed and mastered by the wonderful Shaun Oppedisano. I’m quite glad that everything fell into place and that this is the live performance that Cloud can be remembered by. Although the band is primarily a studio effort, we’ve had a tremendously good time playing the few chances we got around to doing so. Thanks for listening.” – Tyler Taormina (2019)