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Coping Machine

by City Mouth

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negirvin
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negirvin City Mouth are everything that I look for in a newer age alt/rock/pop band. The cleanliness and rhythmic integrity is all very nice, but the incredible songwriting is what brings them to the top. Allowing this to bring forth emotion is also key. Amazing from start to finish! Favorite track: Parking Lot.
tdpn2010
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tdpn2010 Coping Machine is as simple to sing along with from front to back as it is impressively complicated with how many subtleties it weaves – conceptual, symbolic, lyrical, melodic – connecting each of the songs. Ultimately, for an LP that runs an old fashioned 37 minutes, Coping Machine is loaded with replay value big and small that will help people cope with all kinds of days: from those loaded with energy, to those rougher patches contending with isolation. Favorite track: Parking Lot.
Jamarcus Bell
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Jamarcus Bell The lyrics on this album help me to recognize my feelings, my flaws, and the road ahead.
Chase
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Chase Not normal for me to digest the lyrics of songs in the way I have with this album. With City Mouth whether it is from their EP, Hollows, or Coping Machine I find that the lyrics resonate with how I often experience and reflect about life. The instrumentals compliment the somber, contemplative lyrics with feelings of cheerfulness and comfort. Favorite track: Coping Machine.
Mr_RedundantGuy
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Mr_RedundantGuy Amazing album. It really hits home with me and just has a lot of really fun tracks. Also, the package I ordered with the CD and shirt also came with a poster and a CD from another band on the label so that is for going all out! Favorite track: Sinking.
Thomas Ylvisaker
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Thomas Ylvisaker This band is full of great people that play great music. This is another step up. I did not think I would like “Coping Machine” as much as “Hollows”, but it is just as great. I hope they come out with more tunes soon. Favorite track: Sinking.
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Sinking 04:04
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😍 01:39
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Parking Lot 03:01
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For A Second 03:18
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Wednesday 04:11
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about

City Mouth just wants to be saved, but they’ve saved you a spot on the dancefloor. This tight-knit group of Chicago friends has taken a lot from their hometown contemporaries—on 2018’s Hollows, they borrowed bits from breakneck pop-punk and blissed-out indie rock to create something both healing and heartfelt. It’s no wonder listeners have connected with each stage of this journey, from the band’s thousands of Spotify plays or their drop-in to the Audiotree studio.

The next stage of City Mouth is about to open wide, too, and it promises something with a lot more sparkle. It's called Coping Machine, and it's the group's debut LP. The catchiness and catharsis remains. It’s just delivered with the glitz of a DJ night spinning pop hits while maintaining the same gut-wrenching earnestness from the band’s early DNA. Mark Mcclusky (Motion City Soundtrack, Weezer) enters the band’s stacked personnel list, which has included appearances by Real Friends’ Dan Lambton and Dave Knox, to give the City Mouth formula another bite.

Just take a listen to “Sanity for Summer,” the lead single that earned a shoutout on Late Night with Seth Meyers. It’s relentless with its melody, a monster of swirling keyboards and arching guitars. It may namedrop Julien Baker, but the rapid hope loss anchored to the soaring arrangements could’ve been attached to any cameo. It’s in the connective tissue between mental health and monstrous hope where this pop-rock outfit finds its best heartline. And that doesn’t stop here. Brisk follow-up “For a Second” punches up an electronic backbone and injects it with infectious energy, not to mention its fizzy rock push at the buzzer. These heel-turn moments—a nudge of guitar here, a spritz of drum programming here—propels City Mouth past the basement diary days of their past and sets the stage for something much bigger, with a headspace to match. For more examples of City Mouth's chameleonic musical output, venture down the title track's electro-pop rabbit hole or feel the anthemic surge of "Quit While I'm Ahead" betray the song's cynicism.

Coping Machine is out now on CD/Digital via Take This To Heart Records

credits

released April 24, 2020

City Mouth is...
Matt Pow (Vocals)
Ryan Kress (Guitar)
Evan Opitz (Bass)
Jessica Burdeaux (Drums)

All songs written, performed, and produced by City Mouth.
Recorded and produced by Aaron Isaacson.
Mixed, mastered, and produced by Marc McClusky.
Additional vocals and guitar by Jaclyn Heuser.
Additional keyboards and auxiliary instruments by Matthew Bactat.
Guest vocals on Drifting Blue by Nick Sintos.
Additional editing by Roye Robley.
Artwork by Edlyn Capulong and Shannon Sullivan.

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City Mouth Phoenix, Arizona

Matt Pow and friends!

A pop punk/indie pop band from Chicago and Phoenix.

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