In this age of Tinder, Bumble and Grindr (not even going to try to pretend to be young and hip enough to know how else you filthy perverts are finding one another to copulate with these days), sometimes when it comes to all relationships the best matchmakers are still the people who know you best.
They understand and get you and your tastes better than any algorithm can.
And it’s how you get the freaky threesome that is Bowcott and The New World.
The classic rock revivalists, featuring Jay Bowcott on guitar and vocals, Darryl Swart on drums and and Brent Rossal on bass, are the product of good ol’ fashioned face-to-face interaction and the human hookup.
It all started when Swart, while on hiatus from his other act The Wisers, due to the solo success of JJ Shiplett — as well as Shiplett employing half of the other members in his own band and everyone else being busy with their own jobs — was gigging around with fellow scene stalwart, Chris Walsh, formerly of The Daggers.
“We played a couple of really bad cover gigs together,” Swart says. “One day we were playing a gig and he said, ‘Hey I’ve got this buddy Jay and he’s looking to put together a band — I want to introduce you guys.’
“So he did, and Jay had all of these songs, and we had a get-together, a jam, and I loved his stuff. He wanted something with a classic rock, Thin Lizzy, Black Crowes kind of feel to it, and it was right up my alley.”
So Swart enlisted Rossal, having worked with the bassist, recording his other acts Alright Gents and The Corey Hotline and the band, minus Walsh (“He was a valuable contributor in helping steer the direction of the band,” Swart says, “but now we’re just forging ahead as a three-piece for now”) officially became a steady thing.
And now they’re set to release their first album, the four-song Extended Play: No. 1, which they’ll deliver Friday, May 10 with a show at Mikey’s on 12th.
It’s a massive, old-school, melodic rock record that sounds as if it lifted itself out of the leather-clad, ’70s world of rock and lumbered defiantly and unironically into a time when it — like, fellow locals, Napalmpom — actually sounds fresh and pretty fucking cool.
A little Jeff Beck Group, little Lizzy, some Zep, Stones and more, the EP is a headphones-on affair, with beefy, brassy ones banging around in the background to make for a huge, huge, meaty, beaty, big and bouncy sound.
“That was the intention,” Swart says.
It was recorded over a pretty lengthy period of time in a variety of locations, including drum parts that Swart laid down when he was down in the States doing some unrelated sessions in a studio in Salt Lake City. During breaks in recording, he asked if he could track drums for his own album.
“It was an old converted Mormon Temple,” he says. “It was awesome, their window sills were designed with pentagrams and shit.
“And it was a big, huge auditorium so the drum sound was massive.”
The rest of the work was done at OCL Studios and Swart’s own, with overdubs helping to craft a full, rich and polished aural experience.
It should be interesting, then, when the trio takes the stage at Mikey’s for the album release as it will actually be their first live show. As to how the tunes — and the many more they’ve already got in the can — are coming together live, Swart says it should live up to the studio experience.
“It’s been good,” he says. “We’ve been going hard over the last nine or ten months just rehearsing … It’s coming together great.”
And while it initially began as a side-project for all involved — Bowcott is still doing his own solo stuff, Rossal is still in The Corey Hotline and Swart has many things on the go — the drummer affirms that Bowcott and The New World still have some aspirations and expectations for what they can do.
“Absolutely,” he says. “We’ve all been around a little bit too long to put our hope on everything, but we’re one of those bands that say, ‘Never say never’ …
“We really believe in the material, we have enough songs for another two EPs already that we’re going to start working on in the summer, and Jay just keeps bringing in more songs.
“So we think we’re on to something and if people like it, then that’s an encouraging sign.”
Bowcott and The New World release Extended Play: No. 1 Friday, May 10 at Mikey’s on 12th.
They understand and get you and your tastes better than any algorithm can.
And it’s how you get the freaky threesome that is Bowcott and The New World.
The classic rock revivalists, featuring Jay Bowcott on guitar and vocals, Darryl Swart on drums and and Brent Rossal on bass, are the product of good ol’ fashioned face-to-face interaction and the human hookup.
It all started when Swart, while on hiatus from his other act The Wisers, due to the solo success of JJ Shiplett — as well as Shiplett employing half of the other members in his own band and everyone else being busy with their own jobs — was gigging around with fellow scene stalwart, Chris Walsh, formerly of The Daggers.
“We played a couple of really bad cover gigs together,” Swart says. “One day we were playing a gig and he said, ‘Hey I’ve got this buddy Jay and he’s looking to put together a band — I want to introduce you guys.’
“So he did, and Jay had all of these songs, and we had a get-together, a jam, and I loved his stuff. He wanted something with a classic rock, Thin Lizzy, Black Crowes kind of feel to it, and it was right up my alley.”
So Swart enlisted Rossal, having worked with the bassist, recording his other acts Alright Gents and The Corey Hotline and the band, minus Walsh (“He was a valuable contributor in helping steer the direction of the band,” Swart says, “but now we’re just forging ahead as a three-piece for now”) officially became a steady thing.
And now they’re set to release their first album, the four-song Extended Play: No. 1, which they’ll deliver Friday, May 10 with a show at Mikey’s on 12th.
It’s a massive, old-school, melodic rock record that sounds as if it lifted itself out of the leather-clad, ’70s world of rock and lumbered defiantly and unironically into a time when it — like, fellow locals, Napalmpom — actually sounds fresh and pretty fucking cool.
A little Jeff Beck Group, little Lizzy, some Zep, Stones and more, the EP is a headphones-on affair, with beefy, brassy ones banging around in the background to make for a huge, huge, meaty, beaty, big and bouncy sound.
“That was the intention,” Swart says.
It was recorded over a pretty lengthy period of time in a variety of locations, including drum parts that Swart laid down when he was down in the States doing some unrelated sessions in a studio in Salt Lake City. During breaks in recording, he asked if he could track drums for his own album.
“It was an old converted Mormon Temple,” he says. “It was awesome, their window sills were designed with pentagrams and shit.
“And it was a big, huge auditorium so the drum sound was massive.”
The rest of the work was done at OCL Studios and Swart’s own, with overdubs helping to craft a full, rich and polished aural experience.
It should be interesting, then, when the trio takes the stage at Mikey’s for the album release as it will actually be their first live show. As to how the tunes — and the many more they’ve already got in the can — are coming together live, Swart says it should live up to the studio experience.
“It’s been good,” he says. “We’ve been going hard over the last nine or ten months just rehearsing … It’s coming together great.”
And while it initially began as a side-project for all involved — Bowcott is still doing his own solo stuff, Rossal is still in The Corey Hotline and Swart has many things on the go — the drummer affirms that Bowcott and The New World still have some aspirations and expectations for what they can do.
“Absolutely,” he says. “We’ve all been around a little bit too long to put our hope on everything, but we’re one of those bands that say, ‘Never say never’ …
“We really believe in the material, we have enough songs for another two EPs already that we’re going to start working on in the summer, and Jay just keeps bringing in more songs.
“So we think we’re on to something and if people like it, then that’s an encouraging sign.”
Bowcott and The New World release Extended Play: No. 1 Friday, May 10 at Mikey’s on 12th.
