Cock & Swan

Events

FEBRUARY 9th, 2018
Cock & Swan is playing a live session on KEXP at noon on February 9th.
It's open to the public, and you can get more details about how to sign up for tickets HERE

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The collaborative work of longtime partners Johnny Goss and Ola Hungerford, Cock & Swan have confidently established an enveloping aesthetic with a rich catalog of studio albums, EPs, remix collections, and live soundtracks. Each release has showcased their rewarding evolution through adventurous, intricate, vocal-laced synth-pop, their sound always distinguished with an absorbing experimental touch. Consummate studio tinkerers, Cock & Swan recently relocated and upgraded their ever-expanding home studio, Dandelion Gold. Their sound palette has consequently grown to include more vivid colors and added articulation, balancing a brighter sheen with deeper darkness. It’s a sound that exists firmly in it's own hypnogogic world, at once satisfying and unsettling.

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Huffington Post - Best of 2013

"...with their latest effort, the band has entered the heavyweight division...Analog synths, breathy vocals, mesmerizing loops of sound combine to create one of the most enchanting records of 2013."

-Todd Cochran (Read full article here.)

KEXP Song of the Day Podcast

"There is a sincere mystery to what [Cock & Swan] produce, often using electronic-based music, musing and ethereal vocals, all wrapped is a sense of artistic (and playful?) demise."

-Jacob Uitti (Read full article here.)

City Arts - Album of the Month

"Those teenaged savants who make musical magic on the 4-track in the bedroom? Cock & Swan is what happens when they grow up."
[Cock & Swan] retain some of the experimental spirit and overdriven, tape-saturated grittiness of earlier days, which they nod to with the cassette deck boot-up that opens their third album, Secret Angles. This is the chief tension of Cock & Swan—polished dreaminess with an undercurrent of raw and weird—and what makes Secret Angles such an enduring, interesting listen."

-Joe Garvin (Read full article here.)

Paste Magazine

"Featuring the haunting vocals of Ola Hungerford and the intricate multi-instrumentalism of Johnny Goss ... Cock & Swan resemble a drugged-down, more experimental Phantogram, somehow creating an eerie harmony out of unconventional and often discordant instrumental layering."

-Ryan Bort (Read full article here.)