Faulty Cognitions, featuring Chris Mason (Shang-A-Lang/Low Culture), Yole Centeno (Nocturnal Prose/Sacred Games), Nick Obregon (Nocturnal Prose/Eastern Condors), and Mike Nira, has shared a new single and announced their debut album, Somehow, Here We Are. The album will release on Cercle Social on April 12.
The band's sound is described as culling from jangly alt rock and heart-on-sleeve blue collar punk, 12 songs in total.
The opening track on Somehow, We Are Here is a statement. Yes, Faulty Cognitions is a punk band with members of Low Culture, Shang-A-Lang, Nocturnal Prose,and more. Yes, this shares a lot of commonalities, but it’s also a new band with a new sound. The band humbly says they were going for an early, jangly R.E.M. vibe but self-confess that it has more of a Replacements thing going on … Read more
Chris Mason (Faulty Cognitions) SPB: Was the mic’ing of your kit for the recording of Somehow, Here We Are fairly straight forward, or were there some techniques or experiments used to capture the sound? Mason: We didn't do anything too fancy. I do remember that we didn't mic the toms though … Read more
Yole (Faulty Cognitions) SPB: Who came up with the band name (and if it wasn’t you, what was your first impression)? Yole: When Chris and I were scrimmaging for names for the band, he mentioned Faulty Cognitions. My first thought was that it could be a tongue twister and or … Read more
Vali S.C (Kenny Elkin) SPB: Is there any vinyl you own strictly for collector’s purposes but don’t listen to? Elkin: I do have an unopened dead kennedys “singles collection” on vinyl. I received it as a gift and don’t really feel the need to ever open it. Read more
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