HELLO COSMOS absinthe hangover single "Use The Tools"

Electro/psych-clash four-piece, HELLO COSMOS countdown to new era-straddling, algorthim-baiting EP with intense absinthe hangover single…
 
USE THE TOOLS

“Like LCD Soundsystem in space”
Chris Hawkins, 6 Music
 
“A stew of riffage, moulded by electronic squeaks and crunch”
 Louder Than War
 
Hello Cosmos – Use The Tools
OUT NOW
From the Keep Digging EP – Released Wed 26 February 2025
www.hellocosmos.com

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Create now, talk later!  An eruption of immediate, scything, poetic and punk-driven sounds pour from multi-disciplinary four-piece, HELLO COSMOS as they release their first new music of 2024, Use The Tools – OUT NOW. A fuzzed-up, jittery, urgent return from the band, borne of frivolous, end-of-the-world recording sessions – including a guest owl - the single sets the dials for the completion of their latest EP, Keep Digging, set for release on Wed 26 February 2025 on Cosmic Glue.
 
A constellation of guiding theories, principles and creative impulses, Hello Cosmos’ agitated return is bridged to their 2021 debut album, Dream Harder, by global tumult, soul-sapping digitisation and climate breakdown. Porous and alert, occasionally critically aligned to inspirational era-documentarians Sleaford Mods, Idles and LCD Soundsystem, the creative drive of front man and lyricist, Ben Robinson (founder of the UK’s Kendal Calling festival) pulses in time to modernity, whilst also pushing at the walls that close in on nature.
 
Painting a picture of significant creative pedigree, Robinson’s collaborating close relations in Hello Cosmos revolves around a core of his drummer brother, Simon Robinson plus Angela Chan of Placebo/Lanterns On The Lake and Adrian Ingham, also of Deathretro. An extended family of over 50 global collaborators have gathered over five years of recording, remixing and rebooting the live music experience, leading to 2023 remix album, Hard Dirt, featuring Jagz Kooner (Sabres Of Paradise), Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve), and many others.

Working to expand Robinson’s own self-attested manifesto for “Art for art’s sake. Visceral, urgent, passionate, bold,” the release of Use The Tools puts theory into practice as Hello Cosmos disappear into a sense of nothing to lose abandon. Treated by night to absinthe’s recipe of ancient, fermented roots, composing in earshot of a resident owl, the band pieced together a rush of intoxicated ideas.
 
They returned to the recordings in the cool light of day to survey what appeared to be wreckage. What they found was burnished gold, embellished at Greenmount Studios, Leeds with producer, Jamie Lockhart.
 
He says of the track: “’Use The Tools’ was recorded in my brother-in-law and co-writer, Steve Hewitt’s basement studio on the Isle of Wight. There’s a resident owl nearby and the bird’s ‘voice’ is the first you hear on the track. We drank a load of absinthe, pressed record and didn’t think much of what we had put down until he revisited it a month or so later. The lyrics were written that day, so it was all created in about eight hours.
 
“It’s about the internet’s potential being hijacked and tech companies playing us like fruit machines in the attention economy. These insanely powerful computers are in our pockets with near endless potential create, to learn and to connect with people, yet we are drawn to mundane attention hooks. They always take you to a place someone else wants you to be.”
 
The Keep Digging EP’s birth can be traced back to spring 2024, when the band released the squalling, uncompromising statement of Turn Off The News. Unambiguous, single-minded and direct, Hello Cosmos made clear their grasp of music as a construction tool. With it they build opposition to corruptive forces and advocate for artistry, environment and living in the present. The EP was recorded in multiple locations including Florida, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Leeds, Manchester and the band’s current base in Cosmic Glue’s ideas foundry in a repurposed Stockport mill building.
 
Taking decades of experience in live music and creating a Hello Cosmos stage experience to communicate the band’s commitment, their first announced gig for 2024 is in the company of BBC 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins as he curates Awesome Friends on Sat 1 February 2025 with Future Yard, Birkenhead. In addition to more music, the band is set to announce further headline shows and festival appearances in the coming months.
 
For up-to-date information on all Hello Cosmos releases and ticket news, connect with the band online at:
 
www.hellocosmos.com
www.instagram.com/hellocosmosuk