Riffed

RIFFED chatted to PowderedCows this week, the Dorset based band are a true snyth spectacle. They're when Arcade Fire met the 80's. PowderedCows are currently working on their debut album 'Laguna', and if we were to base our ideas on what it'll be like from their latest EP 'Make My Miami', we're in for an album and a half. Here's how our interview with PowderedCows went down:

1) Who are PowderedCows?

Mainly, PowderedCows are Martin Roberts (lyrics and most instruments) and James Worrall (Bass and some lyrics) although we have a collective of musicians via The Burrow (the label we're on) who sometimes play live and record with us. For example we currently have Gavin from The Burrow band Not Made In China who is writing/recording/playing live with us on ipad synths and ipad music making software.

2) You released your latest EP in December 'Make My Miami', tell us a little about that?

Monsters of Revelations is about the weird and wonderful monsters that crop up in the book of revelations. We thought it was funny that it mentioned unicorns and fire-breathing sea serpants that we ended up writing a song about it.

Siberia is about an article that Martin read on forteantimes.com surrouding the tunguska event.

Brain Freeze is genuinely a song about icecream although icecream is used here as a metaphor for lost love, apparently...

National Winner is about acheivement.

Catch Two Birds is about Martin's cat.

Littledown is about having that one last kick around town with your best friends before your paths seperate for a while.

3) You are working on your debut album 'Laguna', how's that going for you?

Great thanks, we're about 78% done on that. just a few more songs to be recorded. Will be a mix of indie guitar songs and indie electronic. We've been listening to a mish mash of CD's we've had in the car (martin's renault laguna): blur, lcd soundsystem, real estate, future islands, the orwells, british sea powe ...

4) You've featured many times on local BBC Introducing shows, how does it feel to have your tracks getting airplay?

James: Everyone has their 15 minutes of fame, well, it's like having that magic feeling of 3 minutes of fame.

Martin: The feedback we've had has been overwhelming, things really kicked off on the social medias and on the back of it we're getting some great reviews. James is pretty good at talking to people at gigs we go to when we see other bands play, i've learned from the master you could say, and on the back of that we have made some awesome friends along the way. I want more radio play, more of that would be good.

5) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?

Martin: I really have no idea, but we'll never stop doing music. I expect James will just want me to play The Libertines track Music When the Lights Go Out. That pretty much sums it up for us really the answer to this question. We're kinda like the Pete and Carl of Bournemouth. But we can't wait for the future, lets see what happens next...

We must say a huge thank you to the James and Martin (A.K.A Pete Doherty and Carl Barat) of PowderedCows for the interview.

Like PowderedCows on Facebook: www.facebook.com/powderedcowsmusic

And Follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Powderedcows

Listen via Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/powderedcows or via Bandcamp: http://powderedcowsmusic.bandcamp.com/

And visit their webpage: www.powderedcows.moonfruit.com

Learn more about PowderedCows Record label here: http://theburrowbournemouth.co.uk/

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