TSM represents Ex Cops licensing/sync rights for: World
Artist Description: Other Music Recording Co.'s first release of 2013 comes from the label's very first signing, Ex Cops, whose debut single launched the imprint last April. Formed by Brian Harding (formerly of Hymns) and Amalie Bruun (formerly of Minks), the Brooklyn band was born in 2011, issuing a short-run, homespun CD-EP of hazy, lo-fi recordings featuring Harding's opaque bedroom-pop songwriting juxtaposed with the duo's sun-kissed harmonies. The pair continued to write new songs while simultaneously playing more live shows, now working as a proper five-piece rock band, with the addition of good friends Kai Kennedy on lead guitar, Leif Young Huckman on bass, and Sam Bair on the drums. Keeping a handful of Ex Cops' early sessions in place, the newly expanded lineup took to the studio to record this full-length with John Siket (Blonde Redhead, Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, etc.) sitting in the production chair, the resulting True Hallucinations a mind-altering pop pill that maintains the intimate mood of the original group's sound, but now presented in widescreen Technicolor.
Harding's songs are effortlessly catchy, built from a timeless blend of gentle, somnambulant harmonies, chiming guitars, and loose swinging rhythms. Their newest full length offering entitled 'Daggers' embodies this very sound with ease. Released November 2014 via Downtown Records, the album sounds at once both classic and modern, their sugary pop songs enshrouded in a unique psychedelic haze. 'Daggers' will linger in your head, but won't overstay its welcome, making for a pop trip that you'll return to again and again.
Label: Other Music
Official website: http://excopsband.com
