This is definitely something that I will
want to listen to. However, the fact that Cold War Kids are releasing an
anthology and not including “Bitter Poem” mystifies me! It’s my favorite song
by them and I thought it was one of their most well known tunes, but maybe not.
The anthology will be available on December 7th.
In
their impressive, steadily rising career, soulful, blues-tinted rockers Cold
War Kids have proven to be one of the most prolific commercially successful
bands around. Never ones to rest, from the beginning they’ve utilized all
manners of getting their music out to their fans, releasing a steady stream of
EPs and digital singles between their full-length studio albums. As they peer
over the horizon at their 15-year anniversary next year and reflect on how far
they’ve come since forming in Southern California’s burgeoning indie rock scene
in 2004, the band, now signed to Capitol Records, has collected together all of
their radio singles spanning their tenure on Downtown Records from 2005 to
2015 along with some of their best unreleased and rare tracks for a double
disc collection titled This Will All Blow Over In Time. The
anthology will be released December 7 via Downtown Records/UMe on
2CD and digital with a double LP on translucent yellow vinyl to follow in
February. The pre-order kicked off today with an instant grat download of the
unreleased track “Vacation In Chicago,” a live version of fan favorite “We
Used To Vacation,” appropriately recorded in Chicago. Pre-order This
Will All Blow Over In Time now: https://UMe.lnk.to/ColdWarKids
Led
by rousing frontman Nathan Willett (vocals/piano/guitar), Cold War Kids
exploded onto the national spotlight in 2006 with their first single, “Hang
Me Up To Dry,” which led to appearances on “Letterman” and “Conan” and
prompted Rolling Stone to dub it one of “The 100 Best Songs Of The Year,”
enthusing: “Indie rock with a little sex: Nathan Willett howls like a country
bluesman as the other three Kids elbow their way through a mess of art-damaged
funk.” Originally released on their third independently released EP Up In
Rags, the song was included on the band’s breakout debut full-length Robbers
& Cowards along with fellow radio hits “We Used To Vacation”
and “Hospital Beds.” This Will All Blow Over In Time includes
these songs as well as all their radio singles from their first five records.
Sequenced
in chronological order from year of full-length album release, the first half
of the retrospective, aptly titled Singles Worked At Radio, ranges from
the soulful urgency of tracks “I’ve Seen Enough” and “Something Is
Not Right With Me,” from Loyalty to Loyalty, the band’s first
album to reach the top 50 on the Billboard 200, to “Louder Than Ever”
and “Royal Blue” from 2011’s bigger and bolder Jacquire
King-produced Mine Is Yours, to the funky, anthemic “Audience
Of One” from their 2009 EP Behave Yourself, to the driving
piano stomper “Miracle Mile,” their fifth top 40 hot in Billboard’s Alternative
Songs chart, and the electro-tinged “Lost That Easy” from 2013’s Dear
Miss Lonelyhearts. Their final record for Downtown, 2014’s Hold
My Home, is represented with the infectious, dramatic rocker “All
This Could Be Yours” and the clap-along anthem “First,” which peaked
at No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart earning the band their
highest charting single which has since been certified Gold.
Titled
Songs From All Over The Place, the second half brings together an
exciting mix of 11 unreleased songs and rarities to give a fuller picture of
the band’s eclectic and prolific output over the last decade and a half.
Kicking off with the aforementioned “Vacation In Chicago,” it includes
the demo for “First,” a cover of Nick Cave’s “Opium Tea,” previously
only available to stream online only, and “Goodnight Tennessee,” originally
released as an iTunes bonus track for Mine Is Yours. Some of the many other
highlights include the dubby remake of “Minimum Day” titled “Minimum
Mistake,” produced by the late Richard Swift and originally only available
as a download, “Coffee Spoon,” a standout from their seventh EP Behave
Yourself, and “In Harmony In Silver” and “Quiet Please” from
their long-out-of-print debut EP Mulberry Street released in 2005
on Monarchy Music. The set closes with “Fashionable,” a sprawling track
released on the deluxe edition of Mine Is Yours.
This
Will All Blow Over Time serves as both the first collection of
the band’s many hits and a gift to longtime fans who will revel in the
unreleased songs and rare tracks from their hard to find early releases. It
also chronicles the band’s trajectory and showcases their continued artistic
evolution as they get ready to celebrate a milestone anniversary.
This
Will All Blow Over In Time Track Listing
Disc
1 – Singles Worked At Radio
1.
Hang Me Up To Dry
2.
We Used To Vacation
3.
Hospital Beds
4.
I’ve Seen Enough
5.
Something Is Not Right With Me
6.
Louder Than Ever
7.
Royal Blue
8.
Audience of One
9.
Miracle Mile
10.
Lost That Easy
11.
All This Could Be Yours
12.
First
Disc
2 – Songs From All Over The Place
1.
Vacation In Chicago
2.
First (Demo)
3.
Opium Tea
4.
Goodnight Tennessee
5.
Coffee Spoon
6.
Minimum Mistake
7.
In Harmony In Silver
8.
Quiet, Please
9.
Expensive Tastes
10.
Romance Languages #1
11.
Fashionable
