Taken from their recently released and swiftly acclaimed EP Feel, new single Gold from UK alternative/indie rock band Coquin Migale is unleashed this week, a song which alone wakes up an eager appetite for the band’s transfixing sound. It is an encounter bursting with swirling melodies, flighty harmonies, and busy imagination, easily reinforcing the potent buzz and keen attention surrounding the Newcastle based quartet.
Coquin Migale was formed in 2013 by friends studying at Northumbria University. Swiftly the band released The Yellow Room EP, a free download which quickly lured in vocal fans. The foursome’s live performances equally caught the keen ears and hunger of a heavily increasing many and subsequently it did not take too long before the likes of NME, Generator, and Fresh On The Net also caught on to the band; a media interest shown again this year with the new single being featured by Tom Robinson on the first BBC 6 Music Introducing Mixtape of 2015. Released via End Of The Trail Records, Gold is the kind of bait anglers dream of and you can only suspect it will induce a fresh and wide expanse of new ears and mouths to get in on the band’s emergence.
Gold opens on a clean jangle of guitar with punchy rhythms quickly joining in before the whole song erupts in a warm bluster of melodic enterprise and vivacity. It is a thick and colourfully musty mix which relaxes for the entrance of the engaging vocals of Alex Soper and returns with greater energy and appealing hues as regularly intermittent and potent expulsions around his alluring tones. The guitars of Soper and Matthew Wooton are a constant flame of invention and unpredictable enterprise too, their frequent detours and sparkling inserts of fresh ideas taking the song and ears on a riveting ride whilst the darkly toned bass of Stevie Kane and the crisply landing swings of Dan Rawlinson only add more creative drama to the encounter.
With the vocal harmonies of Soper and band probably the most virulent part of it all, the song is a mouth-watering introduction to Coquin Migale for newcomers and continuation of a potent ascent those in the know have already taken to their emotions. Quite simply it is a song band which more than supports claims from people like Tom Robinson that the foursome are “currently the best unsigned band in Newcastle. Surely it won’t be long until the majors start knocking?”
Gold is available from Aril 20th via End Of The Trail Records
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RingMaster 20/04/2015
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