Cold Comfort by Snow Westerns

Emerging from California’s wild northern high country in the stormy, dark winter of 2022, Emily Hobson and Anu Kirk tied up the horses and settled in with guitars and drinks. Facing the great silence, they combined their love of twang, shoegaze, slowcore, and goth music and began to write and wrangle.

Within a few weeks, the bones of their first album “Cold Comfort” began to form. Spooky tremolo and reverb. Western themes. Harmonies influenced by Low and Swans. New takes of old songs led to original material, and a new band: Snow Westerns.

Tracklist

1.	California is Cold in the Winter	3:57

2.	I Got Your Six	4:02

3.	Soft Shoulder	3:26

4.	None But The Brave	4:09

5.	The Gin Makes You Mean	3:46

6.	Blue All Over	3:54

7.	Dearest Mercury	4:06

8.	Wild Card	4:04

9.	Evergreen	4:25

10.	Good Wife, Bad Wife	4:02

11.	Araby	4:02

12.	The Great Silence	4:00

Credits

released October 31, 2023

Emily Hobson: vocals, bass
Anu Kirk: vocals, guitars, bass, synthesizer, programming

Special thanks:

Cindy Lundin Mesaros for Song Club, pool parties, and more
Iran Narges and John Hofer for putting up with our noise and absence
May Oskan for helping Anu find his voice again
Michael Hateley, Chris Hansen, Benjamin Thomas Pierce, and Mike Markovich for keen listening and feedback

Credits
All songs written by Emily Hobson and Anu Kirk
© 2023 Erich Zahn Music (ASCAP)

Except "I Got Your Six", written by Emily Hobson, Anu Kirk, and Michael James

Produced by Snow Westerns
Recorded and Mixed by Anu Kirk at Blue Moscow
Mastered by Michael Hateley for Lotus Mastering

Album art assist by Olivia Warnecke
Album photo by Paul Pastourmatzis
Artist photo by Lauren Tabak

℗ © 2023 Bastard Science Records
All rights reserved

“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner."
- David Mitchell

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