Imagine a Black Sea, heavy waves clashing onto some lonely sides of a sharp rock that just sticks its head above the water. On that rock sits a nymph who sings in tune through a dreadful whaling song that will reach the sailors their ears in order to set course to these rocks. Around the rock the sea bottom is covered with shipwrecks and the souls of the sailors sit like ghostly gentlemen on the rock glued to the angelic angel voice. They will be stuck there forever as their lives are recycled as music: heavy music that will reach......

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For those not familiar with COPS, I expect ears to prick up considerably when I mention it's a new project from Harry Cloud, whose Indian Pussy album so delighted me last year and which I probably even under-valued until I found myself getting stuck into it repeatedly towards the end of 2013. For this project, Harry's teamed up with Chloe Mandel and Paul Roessler and together they've put out this three-track EP, which you can get as name-your-price at their bandcamp site here. Unless you're one of those sadly inadequate individuals who found Harry's album last year and, indeed, Ocean......

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Away With The Clouds.... "First impressions can be a bit of a bitch. When I'm faced with a cover depicting a burning mini van and a family of moose in a paddling pool, it's easy to just past judgement and think, 'well, this is going to be mental.' Where as, now having listened to it, what I should really have been thinking was, 'this is going to be fucking mental'... Because it is. Like, inside the head of a psychopath kind of mental. Dark, dirty and incredibly goddamn eerie." "I'm completely at a loss as what to actually write about......

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Falling down a staircase made of angel wings. Maybe your lover cries glass and cuts her eyes. New project from the legendary Harry Cloud....

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