Seriously. I scour for depressing music, for music that takes the sting out of life away and I've rarely found artists that somehow put the sting back into it, and also deepen the wound. Cop Shoot Cop does that perfectly. Tod Ashley, the singer and songwriter of the band, honestly makes me worry for people I'll never even meet. And pretty much makes me want to weep for humanity at large. Lyrics like those of Room 429 ('What you don't understand, is where everything's leading. When all of the signs you see still point to overload.') certainly make me question if I should even listen to hopeless music or read/hear depressing words at all simply because its so extreme.
Enough about that fucking depressed shit, the band also has some groovy instrumentals. Brooding bass lines and melancholic (lol we're back to depression) guitar riffs that give each song a sense of completion, as if there were no rocks unturned in the garden of town criers.
Both the Ask Questions Later and Release that I uploaded have a bunch of extra tracks. Not sure if its a deluxe edition or if the original version I downloaded from Pyschotic Leisure Music just had a bunch of fucking extra shit, but it'll make sure you've got enough to listen to from this shortlived band for a while.
Tod also plays in Firewater currently. The misanthropy is just as prevalent there as it was in Cop Shoot Cop. So check them out too.
White Noise
http://www.mediafire.com/?ogozmrozxyk
Release
http://www.mediafire.com/?zdzhzyumnfy
Ask Questions Later
http://www.mediafire.com/?omznlhtemql
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