Coughs

Coughs
"Secret Passage"
2006 (Load Records)

1. Quagmire - 03:35
2. Happy Harvest - 04:29
3. Dark Powers - 03:14
4. Life of Acne - 03:52
5. Fencing - 03:07
6. Bunny Slope - 03:44
7. Colors and the Way They Make You Feel - 04:14
8. Ditch That Zero - 02:25
9. Quinze Trous - 03:55
10. Intentional Community - 03:17
11. The Horse, He's Sick - 02:07

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Review from Wire Magazine (November 2006):
"Chicago sextet Coughs don’t so much stay on the one as stomp on it mercilessly, with seismic force. Their sound is utterly percussive, not just from the double-drum line-up, but also in the way that all the instruments land on the beat at once with a crunching brutality. The dynamic is rigid, with fuzz bass, trebly guitar, sax and bellowed vocals all fighting for the same corner. This stiffness combines with a fixedly monodimensional quality to create a powerfully undiluted sound. What prevents Secret Passage from drifting into tedium, however, is the group’s awareness of their own cartoon extremity, with Anya Davidson’s hoarse exhortations stuck in an over-revved exaggeration of angst – perfectly captured on the squealing “Life Of Acne”."