Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 01 Take Control

from And Yet

August 27th, 2012

14 tracks

49:03

And Yet

Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 01 Take Control

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 01 Take Control

Cold in Berlin

Honey wanna bloodbath? Give me a call Fuck you like a lazer if you take me home Bright like a furnace light up your soul Love you like a loser leave you alone This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control She wakes up early and takes a cigarette From her pack of cigarettes She’s not ready to face the day yet She goes back to bed with a book She’s been doing this for days now been doing this for days now been doing this for days now who gives a fuck? Baby need a hero to drag me home Fuck you like a furnace light up your soul Love you like a lazer watch you explode Leave you like a loser leave you alone This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control She wakes up early and takes a cigarette From her pack of cigarettes She’s not ready to face the day yet She goes back to bed with a book She’s been doing this for days now been doing this for days now been doing this for days now Who gives a fuck? Metal in my blood good Metal in my blood tastes sweet Metal upon my tongue Metal upon my teeth Metal in my blood good Metal in my blood tastes sweet Metal upon my tongue Metal upon my teeth This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control She wakes up early and takes a cigarette From her pack of cigarettes She’s not ready to face the day yet She goes back to bed with a book She’s been doing this for days now Been doing this for days now been doing this for days now Who gives a fuck?

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‘Translators for our imploding society’ was how Artrocker described CiB’s debut ‘Give Me Walls’. Awarding it album of the month and later an album of the year. Since it’s release the band watched London burn in the 2011 riots while writing and rehearsing their follow up in the basement of a church in Rotherhithe.

Bidding a found farewell to the East London Post-Punk scene CiB have imbibed the best of the 1980s 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' albums from the fledgling alternative scene. Swans, Shellac and Sonic Youth from the US. And from the UK the chorus, reverb and delay pedals of Bauhaus, Joy Division and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Showcasing an incredible vocal range vocalist and lyricist Maya broods, purrs and screams at the state of the world and her place in it. From the harshest growl to the softest coo in the space of a chorus, one song in a higher register, the next in a lower one. We wonder who they are going to compare her to now?

The drums remain as solid as ever with pounding overdubs locking tight to future classic basslines. But it's the scale of the sound that announces itself. Haunting vocals over massive drums. Driving bass versus eerie guitar lines. If 'Give Me Walls' was dark and spiky, 'And Yet' promises to be darker, heavier, slower, faster, better.

Cold in Berlin broke of out the east London scene to play Offset festival, tour in Europe and share stages with bands as diverse as The Chapman Family, Diary of Dreams and Mater Susperia Vision. Still skint, heart broken and living on the fringes of society and acceptance, it is clear that alternative cultures romantic vision of DIY purity is no longer an option. And Yet…