The Cords are a new indiepop duo from Scotland, comprising sisters Eva and Grace Tedeschi. They started playing drums when they were little kids. They found that they liked 80s and 90s indie music more than their peers did, and so formed a band, just the two of them, with Grace on drums and Eva on guitar – and the songs started to flow. With only a cassette and a flexi single (Bo’s New Haircut / Rather Not Stay) released so far (both of which sold out in a matter of hours), Eva and Grace honed their skills by playing a whole series of gigs with some of the biggest names in Scottish pop.  Their first show was with The Vaselines, and since then they have played with Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, BMX Bandits and others, while also sharing stages with the new generation of indiepop stars: the Umbrellas, Chime School, Lightheaded. The Cords were invited to record a session for Riley and Coe on 6 Music on the back of their early releases, and have now recorded their eagerly-awaited debut album, which will be co-released by Skep Wax (in the UK and Europe) and Slumberland Records (in America).  Fabulist is out today and it’s the first single taken from the debut album.
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“First single Fabulist is a sweet and catchy pop song that races along, so headlong and hooky that, on first listen, you could miss the fact that it’s a wholehearted take-down of people who lie for a living”. 

The Album:

“The album was produced by Jonny Scott and Simon Liddel, and it respects the band’s stripped down DIY approach. There is some bass guitar (played by Eva and Grace) and occasionally a keyboard pokes its head above the surface.  But these elements are simply doing their job: the real stars of this record are Eva’s sinuous guitar and silky vocals, and Grace’s clattering, expressive sing-song drums. It’s the sound of two sisters having an intense musical conversation with each other, pushing each other on to greater heights, exhilarated by the set of perfect pop songs they have magicked up.

Like all great pop bands, The Cords have taken familiar ingredients and created something utterly fresh.  Older indie fans will hear echoes of The Shop Assistants, The Primitives, Tiger Trap and Talulah Gosh, but they will hear something else too: a yearning, dreamy melodic power that takes the songs into darker, stranger places. 

Younger pop fans won’t care about these old reference points: what they will hear is the sound of two young women doing something utterly exciting: playing loud guitar and loud drums, taking analogue instruments and hitting them hard in the service of immediate and infectious pop tunes, and not giving a second thought about the digital world that wants to own everything we do.  The Cords sound free: they remind us that pop music, played right, is expressive, liberating, joyful and deeply personal.”

Tracklist:
01. Fabulist
02. Just Don’t Know (How To Be You)
03. October
04. Vera
05. Doubt It’s Gonna Change
06. You
07. Bo’s New Haircut
08. I’m Not Sad
09. Yes It’s True
10. Weird Feeling
11. Done With You
12. Rather Not Stay
13. When You Said Goodbye

Fabulist is out now via Skep Wax Records (Europe) and Slumberland Records (America). Look HERE for more information on The Cords.