Cootie Catcher - Something We All Got *Pre-Order

There’s an alternate reality where everyone makes a living wage and the cleanest buses you’ve ever seen arrive every other minute. Where
the most intense songs are about confessing your love to a crush at the apple orchard, and where gentle feelings and chaotic energy are
inseparable best friends. This is the timeline where Cootie Catcher is right at home. This Toronto based four-piece exudes both vulnerability
and unbridled excitement, creating a sound that hypercharges the open-hearted tenderness of twee pop with spiraling synths and giddy
electronics. New album Something We All Got is the clearest and most vibrant reading of Cootie Catcher’s vision yet, with songs of sweetness,
nervousness, and expectancy that beam out unguarded.
After releasing music made primarily in basement recording environments, Something We All Got is the band’s first flirtation with studio
recording. The edges are still sharp, however, with some parts assembled from time-honored lo-fi methods and fun, personally-sourced
samples seeping into the production. The sound is explosive and upbeat, with euphoric guitars, bubbly synth lines, speedy drums both played
and programmed, and all other manner of sound constantly colliding. Cootie Catcher has three songwriters, Sophia Chavez, Anita Fowl, and
Nolan Jakupovski, all of whom have distinctive voices but still manage to overlap in their writing on shared concerns like navigating the lines of
romantic and platonic relationships, their city’s social scenes, and struggles in both the microcosmic experience of playing in a band and the
zoomed-out challenges of living through late-stage capitalism.
Joy still touches every surface of Something We All Got. “Quarter Note Rock” bounces around the room in a fit of jangling guitar chords,
scratched samples, and interplay between breakbeat loops and somersaulting live drums. It’s a blast of positivity even with lyrics about how
disappointing it can be to meet your heroes. A smiling electro pop instrumental supports lyrics about having to step painfully away from an
almost realized love on “Gingham Dress,” a song that subverts themes of domesticity as a backdrop for the dashed wilt of hopeless devotion.
Cootie Catcher rolls down hills and jumps through flaming hoops throughout Something We All Got without ever dumbing down the visceral
emotions that drive these songs. There’s a palpable tension between the band’s exhilarating sonics and the raw, often uneasy sentiments
expressed, but it’s an integral part of what makes them unique. Rather than hide behind the kind of calculated vagueness that plagues so much
of the indie rock landscape in the time of cursed algorithms, Cootie Catcher runs full-speed toward every confusion and excitement, fearlessly
direct and embracing the reality they’re in.
Tracklisting
Side A 1. Loiter For The Love of It 2. Lyfestyle 3. Straight Drop 4. From Here to Halifax 5. No Biggie 6. Rhymes With Rest 7.
Quarter Note Rock
Side B 8. Take Me For Granted 9. Wrong Choice 10. Gingham Dress 11. Puzzle Pop 12. Stick Figure 13. Going Places 14.
Pirouette