Tattoos & rum are two things that many of us here are personally fond of. So that’s why we’re stoked the masters of both, Sailor Jerry, are fond of us too. By us, I mean Bad Cop’s new album, but close enough?
What makes this debut such a keeper? Well, it’s a bit hard to put my finger on, as is the band’s music. Songs alternate between dept store guitar-drenched, moody, post-punk snippets and balls-out, 70’s rock n’ roll riffs. It’s these interesting juxtapositions of seemingly incompatible styles and techniques that lift this record out of the genre dumpster and place it up on the repeated listens shelf.
Read the rest of the review here
Catch Bad Cop tonight at Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia, PA with Thomas Function and Moon Women (a member of which we hear is a Sailor Jerry blogger). We’re stoked that they’re finally coming to NYC tomorrow (at Lit Lounge)!
Mothers, keep your children indoors cos these southern boys are about to blow shit up with some real furious punk-garage-psych rock ‘n’ roll!!!!!! Bad Cop is about to WRECK YOUR TOWN!
BAD COP FALL TOUR:
Sat 9.4 – Woodchuck’s, Toledo, OH
Sun 9.5 – Now That’s Class, Cleveland, OH
Mon 9.6 – Lemon Grove Cafe, Youngstown, OH
Tue 9.7 – Howler’s Coyote Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA (w/ Thomas Function)
Wed 9.8 – Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia, PA (w/ Thomas Function)
Thurs 9.9 – Lit Lounge, New York, NY
(w/ Thomas Function, Liquor Store & Devil Eyes)
Sat 9.11 – Cousin Larry’s, Danbury, CT (w/ Devil Eyes)
Tues 9.14 – Sidebar Tavern, Baltimore, MD (w/ Devil Eyes)
Wed 9.15 – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Charlottesville, VA (w/ Turbo Fruits)
Thurs 9.16 – Tipsy, Greenville, NC
Sat 9.18 – Go Bar, Athens, GA
Sat 9.25 – Don Pedro, Brooklyn, NY
Sun 9. 26 – The Space, Hamden, CT
Thurs 9.30 – Bar St. Laurent, Montreal, QC
(POP MONTREAL w/ Turbogeist & Devil Eyes)
Fri 10.1 – Silver Dollar Room, Toronto, ON
Fri 10.8 – The Nightlight, Chapel Hill, NC
Sat 10.9 – The Tin Roof, Charleston, SC
Thurs 10.14 – The Whistler, Chicago, IL
Fri 10. 15 – Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines, IA
Sat 10.16 – Plaines Project, Chicago, IL
Sat 10. 23 – Spike Hill, Brooklyn, NY (Deli Magazine CMJ Showcase)
Alex of Bad Cop does the Pants Off Dance Off
Bad Cop’s debut album “Harvest the Beast” will be out on CD on Sept. 14, but you can pre-order it here for a low-low price of only $9.99 (reg. $13).
Dudes, you gotta check this album…. Impose says “it’s one of the albums of the year, mos def” and dig what Corazine had to say:
“Harvest the Beast” pulls off a mesmerizing balancing act. Bad Cop manages to be loud and heavy and ear-crashing while still being bright and poppy. Bad Cop is psychedelic. Bad Cop has the energy of punk in the vehicle of garage rock… Boisterous and punchy but pretty yet heavy but speaker-blowing yet powered by pop but trippy yet raw and direct and with the energy of metal but not the sound, more punkish … going in circles …. ARGH! You get the point. Bad Cop’s Harvest the Beast is a brilliant slab of noise pop garage psyche delirium!!!!!!!!!”
Don’t believe us? Listen to the album or download a free MP3 over at http://www.badcopmusic.com.
Or watch the video trailer for the song “Daylight”:
Bad Cop Teaser from Bad Cop on Vimeo.
Nashville trio Bad Cop’s debut album isn’t even out yet but it’s been getting RAVE reviews!
Impose Magazine says:
“It’s a soulful, greasy, howlin’ whiteboy kind of rant-rock that’s even greater than the sum of all its crazy parts, a frantic, no-holds-barred, “fuck the rules” kind of album that we desperately need right now… Let’s just say that what we have here is one of the albums of the year, mos def, and leave it at that.”
The band will be going on tour tour this Fall in support of their new record. Tour dates and yet another stellar review, this time from Big Takeover, right after the jump… (more…)
