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Friday, December 04, 2009

HEAVY WEIGHT VINYL HOUSE OF COSY CUSHIONS & KATIE KIM

collaborative heavy weight vinyl 'house of cosy cushions & katie kim' is out now
road records (dublin) will have some for sure
the vinyl will be available online soon
if you want a vinyl, send us a myspace message
or email: info@houseofcosycushions.com

'They don’t do recording sessions in purgatory, but if they did it would probably sound something like this magnificently unsettling collaborative album. It was predictable that a conversation between these two under-the-radar Irish acts would be rewarding (both released thoroughly creditable albums in 2008). What’s less predictable is that the results would be this special. Richard Bolhuis and Katie Sullivan channel disembodied vocals over a creepily static ambient drone....Post-rock music at its instinctive, risk-taking finest.' (IRISH TIMES)

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Friday, November 14, 2008

ANIMAL DREAM
Category: Pets and Animals

The album 'Animal Dream' is available through a link on our myspace page and on I Tunes. You can get it in several shops throughout Ireland. Road Records (Dublin) will definitely have some. It will be released in Holland in 2010.

'...It doesn't usually happen this way. Ireland has a history of exporting talented musicians and sending them on their way in the big, bad world, but rarely do we import acts intent on carving out a niche for themselves in our little corner of the globe. When Dutchman Richard Bolhuis moved to Ireland in 2005 and started taking his role as a band leader seriously, what followed was an impressive EP ('Palace For The Lost Ones'), and now comes the quartet's full- length debut 'Animal Dream'.
Much has been made of parallels between House Of Cosy Cushions and The Bad Seeds - but if it's a predictable comparison, it's also an accurate one. These are dark, pensive alt-rock songs, cloaked in a wispy veil of menace and atmosphere, and Bolhuis shares the same songwriting shrewdness as Cave - best exemplified on the minimal groove of 'Good Old Love', or the sublime instrumental 'Jaunt', both of which are crafted in a simplistic-but-stylish manner...the likes of Cathy Davey and Cora Venus Lunny join the ranks at various points, adding as much texture to the songs as the hellish violins, spluttering harmonica and portentous trombone intervals. There's nothing cosy or cushioned about this house; if anything, this is a vaguely disconcerting record that furtively lures the listener out of their comfort zone. Like all the best ones, really.' (Lauren Murphy, Hot Press)

'Songwriter Richard Bolhuis cleverly combines innate pop sensibility with grand neo-classical scope, setting it all off with a twist of mystical folk spookiness. The results are brassy, organic compositions, which seem to grow out of the darkness like branches of a gnarled tree.
Enhanced by guest appearances from Cathy Davey and Cora Venus Lunny, songs like Naked As Pain, Animal Dream and the addictive She’s Not Your Witch capture the attention. A beautiful, bewitching experience.' (Johnnie Craig, the Post)

'One of the most impressive albums I've heard this year...'Animal Dream' is something of a triumph. It's a very unusual collection of dark love songs that echoes influences such as PJ Harvey, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Captain Beefheart.' (Martin Burns, Rated> Music, NOTW)

'...each song is a masterpiece...honestly you wished that this record would never end at all...'
(Sandra Huber, L.E.G.)

'The brainchild of Richard Bolhuis, this record seems to have come along especially to ease us into the impending dark months. 'Animal Dream' is a bewitching brew of gently ardent and deeply intimate songs, with a sensuously haunting and slow-burning thrust. Amongst the moodiness, there is also a distinct dash of the vaudevillian, especially evident in the mounting urgency and Southern gothic whispers of 'Jaunt', and on the dark and introverted wandering of the melancholy 'Come Dance'... Beautiful.'
(James Gracey, AU Magazine)

'House of Cosy Cushions have an almost fragile darkness about them...'Animal Dream' lives in the unorthodox songwriting of Richard Bolhuis, who was apparently never told songs aren’t supposed to sound this way so, unaware, he went and made it work. And yes it works - and works well...little snapshots of an upside down world gone right, mismatched parts that, in one unpredictable instant, become a complete and beautiful picture.' (rocksellout.com)

'Led by transplanted Dutchman Richard Bolhuis, House Of Cosy Cushions ply a mixture of shrieking chamber pop and Nick Cave-style fire and brimstone rock...'Animal Dream' is a debut of knuckle-whitening contrasts: in places it recalls Portishead and Tindersticks at their most uncompromising...' (Metro)