Italian psych/post-rock band Cosmic Room 99 have unleashed their new single “E CORP” alongside a music video.
The track serves as the second taste of the debut self-titled album “Cosmic Room 99”, set to arrive on October 11 via Shyrec. Pre-order your copy here.
COSMIC ROOM 99 formed at the tail end of 2022 in Treviso, Italy. The group consists of Antonio Angeli (vocals/drums) and Matteo Scarpa (vocals/bass), both members of Kill Your Boyfriend, and Diego Menegaldo (vocals/guitar), a former guitarist of New Candys.
The band’s name was inspired by a documentary called “The Cosmic Room,” which tells the story of NATO employee Bob Cohen accidentally discovering a top-secret plan to annihilate part of the world’s population to maintain Earth’s sustainability. The number 99 in numerology represents someone who uses their gifts to make the world a better place, encapsulating the band’s ethos.
Musically, COSMIC ROOM 99 draws influences from a diverse range of sources, including the obsessive rhythms of The Velvet Underground, the dreamy psychedelia of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd, the harmonies of The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds,” the sharp feedback of The Jesus and Mary Chain, the austere wave of Joy Division, and the deep, abysmal worlds of Bauhaus, all linked by a punk attitude.
About their new single the band says: “Suffocating in a dead-end cycle where the working class is forced to stay in their place without gratification or recognition, acting as a mechanism to elevate figures with no other ambition than to elevate their status quo.
All harnessed by the blackmail of guaranteeing those basic needs that are increasingly unattainable.“
This is E-Corp. This is Evil Corp.”
Cosmic Room 99 Tracklist:
- Mastermind
- Plastic Venus
- E Corp
- Red Lights
- One Side Dice
- Atmosphere
- Days Of Violence
- Dreaming Wonder
- Breathe
- 20 Force Heaven
- Way Out
