Cold War Kids Cold War Kids

• 1 Double Life 02:23
• 2 Run Away With Me 03:12
• 3 Stray 03:01
• 4 Toxic Mask 03:15
• 5 Another Name 02:58
• 6 Blame 03:37
• 7 Empty Inside 02:57
• 8 Braindead Megaphone 02:50
• 9 Sunday in the City 04:10
• 10 For Your Love 02:46
• 11 Betting on Us 03:00
• 12 Starring Role 02:45
• Total Runtime 36:54

Info for Cold War Kids

Cold War Kids have announced their 10th studio album, Cold War Kids. The band’s singer and songwriter Nathan Willett describes: " This is our self-titled record. Everybody gets one. This felt like the right time because the sound of this record is the sound that makes Cold War kids unlike any other. I’m so proud of these songs. They took a long time to come together. The longing and struggle and joy I wanted to express are personal to me and I am so excited to share it with our fans who have come with us on the journey.”

"Cold War Kids is the album to listen to regardless if you’re in the mood to dance or ponder life’s questions. Cold War Kids’ newest release is a masterclass in balancing funk with sentimental elements." (music.mxdwn.com)

Ultimately, Cold War Kids is the culmination of Willett and Maust's two-decade creative partnership, and it embodies the realization that said partnership is still truly worth celebrating. “For so many years, we were white-knuckling it and feeling like we were imposters,” Willett admits. “I realized, I can't think that way. If I'm not sure I can listen back to something and know that it's great, then I shouldn't be putting it out.”

“This group of friends met and were drawn to each other at a Christian college, and we started the band in a strange environment where we realized, what are we all doing here?,” Willet says. “We came from a place of growing up, listening to music, and going to shows, and there's a type of sweetness where we were sheltered from the music industry or wanting to be successful at any cost. Maust and I still have that connection, and it's still an important part of what Cold War Kids are today.”

Nathan Willett, vocals, piano, guitar
Matt Maust, bass
David Quon, guitar, backing vocals
Matthew Schwartz, keyboards, backing vocals, guitar, percussion
Joe Plummer, drums, percussion

Cold War Kids
means International Blues. We began in August '04 with friends, jangly guitar, hand claps, and a Harmony amp in a storage room atop Mulberry Street restaurant in downtown Fullerton, CA. For the first practices, having instruments was secondary to stomping and chanting; Clanging on heat pipes, thumping on plywood walls. Hollering into tape recorders. Slipping and swaying into alleyways and juke joints of yesteryear. Tapping in to the American dustbowl and British maritime. On the restaurants roof the sound and feeling was cultivated and burned, built and hallowed out, painted and stripped to the primer.

Almost three years have passed and we haven't let up since the starting gun fired. The album "Robbers & Cowards" was released in the US in October '06 on Downtown and the rest of the world in February '07 on V2. 'Why even have apartments?' We often ask ourselves as we have toured with the vim of a family reunion brawl across the US, UK, Europe, Australia and Japan.

Cold War Kids strive to make honest songs about human experience in orchards and hotel rooms, laundromats and churches, sea ports and school halls. We love the songs of Dylan, Nina Simone, and the Velvet Underground and make our own, which we like to think, are pretty original.

This album contains no booklet.