Obey Cobra Sign With Rocket Recordings For New Album 'Mwg Drwg'
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Obey Cobra will release their second album this spring.
The Cardiff band has signed a deal with Rocket Recordings for the follow-up to their 2021 debut, 'Oblong', with 'Mwg Drwg' set to arrive on May 3.
Alongside the news, the four-piece have shared an unsettling video for the single Ten Of Wands, which fuses post-punk, electronic and industrial influences. Commenting on the clip, they said:
"The Mari Lwyd - a horse skeleton dressed in white sheets and adorned with ribbons - is a Welsh folkloric custom. In both history and the present day, for Wassail, the Mari Lwyd leads a procession, knocking on the doors of local houses trying to gain entry through song. The people who live in the houses deny the Mari Lwyd from entering, again through song, and the two sides continue this call and response until either the householders eventually relent, and the Mari Lwyd is allowed in and given food and drink... Or must continue without on their journey."
"In the music video for Ten of Wands we follow the Mari Lwyd. An outsider and outcast from the edges of the earth, wandering through historical spaces void of humans, eventually ending at the open sea. Ten of Wands tells of a reading and premonition, given to lead singer K Wood, taken with a pinch of salt."
Obey Cobra will play The Lexington in London on April 19 with their label mates Bonnacons of Doom. Head here for details.
'Mwg Drwg' tracklist:
Blank Tape
Ten of Wands
Gnostic Shock
Blue Hour
Kali Yuga
AI GF
Tolerance Break
Home Wrecca
Half Smile
Mwg Drwg
Blackweir
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