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Soft Cough

by Soft Cough

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1.
Mouthbreather don't drive me sane I’ll jump stark naked from a plane Just to prove to you I didn’t need a parachute Mouthbreather don't make me laugh I’ll take my toaster for a bath Just to prove to you that I could cook while I bathe if i could have a word i think it'd be the first time you ever witnessed something like this something someone wants to say something painful, something i wanna say halitosis coming from your mouth again along with lies i thought that we were better friends
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i'm just waiting for my Rube Goldberg death scene catch me off guard, and you'll get the best of me chain reactions, unhappy accidents apologize, but will it bring me back again? icy breezes little harbingers of doom so many objects could impale me, some are sitting in this room my bones could erode as the current carries me til i'm just sediment suspended in the Genesee and if my deaths pathetic and i choke on snacks don't stop at sacrificial rituals to bring me back if its eerie and suspicious, i'm OK with that i've been parading around in my humanity watch me dodge these fatalities and make somebody mad at me cheating death as if life had rules wish i could sleep in your basement but you've got dangerous gardening tools (i) feel prophetic deja vu this thing that's happening to me i think it happened once to you i need construction equipment if it needs someone to plummet through
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Hosono 03:58
sorry Hosono you see it really makes me think i would have done the same thing and oh my gosh you don't know but you seem pretty cool i'd be fine in a shipwreck sitting next to you ///////////////// ceaseless flares were shooting through the air what did you expect? and what would any reasonable man do next? i'd jump the deck and switch the subject up //////////////// Marni, i'm an idiot because i broke your bong/vase but i still plan on fixing it and the government they've got my naked pics that makes me upset cause i'd be dead if they viewed my body as a threat i can help you find your way home when you get home i can hold you i can hold you i can hold u like a sweater or like a good high this is goodbye i never met you if i offend you i never meant to you got a raw deal you were rejected a similar homecoming's what i expect(ed)
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Jon's a senator Sense of humor that never breaks or bends I'm just tryna draw Silver linings of bugs that bit my friends Then I met the man Sitting poolside talking to his son His face was melting off Such a pity lost on everyone Just because it's warm I can't control for the rolling clouds produce the storms But we can lay outside and dramatize all the pranks we pulled when we were young When I'm up here, I feel like nothing I think this winter might be the death of me, so to speak To survive the week, would feel so surreal But i couldnt speak, 'cus I was zoned out Matt's a champion 64 bit koopa shells to break When it was said and done I nearly broke down and cried staring at that cake If your legs are tired or paralyzed by the reasons you convinced yourself You can save your prayers and we can stare at the ceiling till we laugh it off When I'm up here, I feel like nothing Think this winter might be the death of me, so to speak To survive the week, would feel so surreal But i couldnt speak, 'cus I am drowning
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what to say, i'm just glad i stayed home cause a day off's the way off this titanic mind coffee grounds look something like burial mounds they are heavy, black, steaming, and elephantine but i'm weightless, pale, clammy, and impish today i will float with the ghosts and scare people away, with *unspeakable boilings and tearings apart* i've drowned in mathematics now sleeping alone isn't art friends float down rivers while laughing at government schemes other friends' livers remember the days they were clean things we put in our bodies, just where do they go? you think you're such an expert then you oughta know we are seadogs with pyrite to fill up those cracks in between igniting the crevices reading some Life magazines: from the fifties, or the sixties all the junk i've consumed it resides in a jar an archive of my mistakes ever preserved in the stars fie could live one day over i've got one in mind woulda done it correctly if i woke up on time live one day over, i've got one in mind would have done it correctly if i woke up on time what to do? i'm just troubled by you and the way you behave it's incredibly hard to explain while/well i'm ill, i'm just bothered and thrilled that someone would put up for so long now i guess it's so long again <><><><><> there are things that we put in our bodies we know what we're doing and we aren't sorry honestly i don't know how to react you think hurting yourself doesn't hurt anybody else there are things that we do that we don't even realize sometimes there are people we hurt, yet they stay at our sides but only sometimes there are signs that some people don't want me around anymore there are oceans of strangers and i think its time that i went and drowned if i could live one day over i've got one in mind would have done it correctly if i woke up on time live one day over i've got one in mind woulda done it correctly if i woke up on time live one day over got one in mind woulda done it correct if i your hand's flat your hand's freezing said the man in the mirror count on the girl of your dreams til they shear her (legs off) (yeah legs off)
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Jackson Pollock You're an alcoholic And I think it's lame that you beat you beat your wife Jackson Pollock You were in a car crash Man, those trees'll come and they'll take your life I'll take you to the Rouen Cathedral, But let me tell you this: I've been there once before And it seems like Claude Monet Was full of shit I've got the wrong impression Nothing much to mourn Come now it's the time of the Cezanne I'd love to distort your form I don't see what's special About a luncheon on the grass Sandwiches and Manets We'd discuss the decadence Of this and that Matisse's livlihood; he kissed your purple hair Ma jolie, you can be my Olympia, if you want so you can Call me a Faux-vist Call me what you want As long as you don't see me Or treat me as a dilletante I feel beheaded Its like I can't reach out to you And like Rodin's Walking Man It seems like I too will be walking soon We can visit the Demoiselles But I should warn you first I've traveled long and far, but I've never seen girls like that in this universe You think they're beautiful I beg to disagree Is there something more to this artwork Something I can't see ~gtr solo~ Mrs De Kooning, I'm just assuming you werent thrilled by the way he drew you Your feet were webbed, your hair unmade And your eyes were the size of hand grenades But oh, in the end what difference does it make? After all its just farce for art's sake If you had seen what I had made When I was just a lad of the 2nd grade You'd drop your jaw in awe With markers on napkins I would draw And you think this talent can't be taught Well you'll be the first to know it looked a hell lot like George Seraut Starry nights are cool and all But think of all the musings of a bathroom stall Porcelain fountain's fine, But did it take stock in Baudelaire's mind? All of the fleur du mal, They're plucked before they bloom. It's ennui, Van Gogh to Kandinsky, ma cherie, so you can...
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Car Song 04:48
you were a map of the entire country but now you're a traffic sign, with just one word you were the sunshine inside of my eyes when i was trying to merge so thanks for construction on my way to work you're just doing your job and i think you're the worst when i am exhausted, and thinking of nothing can still taste the toothpaste on dry english muffins it's hard to coexist when you keep driving like this (yeah. yuh. uhhhhhh, yeah! well okay, yeah i'll see you soon. alright love you) blinding refractions resulting in fragments of glass if life is a highway, you're a minivan riding my ass *my touch is jeweled [and] my smile[s] a motorcar* drive through the tollbooth, wondering if i was overcharged delivered my car to the watery deep with you on my mind, and pizzas in the passenger seat well it's hard to coexist when you keep driving like this and im further off course with each exit i miss well its hard to co exist (aughh, omg omg)
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Croak! 02:26
where to begin? i was dissected for your sins no lily pads in bio labs to my chagrin your scalpels edge and my spine (oh) they intertwined and it looked something like a cross but i don't mind but these dead eyes don't look for flies ceiling tiles obscure my skies and no one cares when critters die now to resume, how did i end up in this room? this sterile slab is colder than my old lagoon secreting glands and greasy middle-schooler hands we all had plans, we all got swamped, i understand but this dead skin won't hold me in teenage tadpoles love to sin sacrificed and they're just begging to begin xXxXx - xXxXx - xXxXx - xXxXx - xXxXx so crocodiles, i'll see you in a while amphibious apostles, young reptilian disciples turn the other cheek and i'll just lay here with a smile in 3 days' time ill teach you how to croak
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Like A Gun 03:04
you went off like a gun yeah, you burn out like the evening sun with your red dress on as you started to yawn not a single hesitation doing nothing wrong spent all night searching through the paraphernalia looked in your eyes and said "would it kill ya, now?" you came from outer space yeah, you shoulda seen the look on your face (on your face) because it looked so pained as it started to rain as if your life was set for flight and you just crashed that plane spent all year watching you hallucinate you know i swear i would have helped if i could just relate .............. with your red dress on as you started to yawn not a single hesitation doing nothing wrong spent all night searching through the paraphernalia looked in your eyes, i saw crocodilia now and ya looked so pained as it started to rain as if your life was set for flight and you just crashed that plane spent all year watching you hallucinate you know i swear i would have helped if i could just relate (oh no)
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Joey Ramone 03:23
You look like Joey Ramone Not that there’s anything wrong Looking a little bit like Joey Ramone

about

We recorded most of this album in the living room of Mute City in Geneseo, NY. Other parts were recorded in bedrooms and basements of various houses in New York state. We started recording in October 2014.

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SOFT COUGH is:

Nick Koithan - guitar/vox
Dan Pugh - guitar/vox
Ben Freiman - drums/vox
Tom Kohn - bass/vox

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released July 2, 2015

recorded by Soft Cough
mixed and engineered by Ben Freiman
mastered by Tom Flynn
The photo of us on the album cover is by Britina Cheng

Special thanks to (in no particular order):

Dan Lynch, Big Fred, Comfy, the lovely folks from Syracuse, Whitney Smith, Eli Ben-Yaacov, Skirts, Slackjaw, Calvin for his cymbals, Artie for his mics, Rob for his drums, Red Kettle, Mike P. for his drums, Reb Hirsch, seltzer, lavender, Adam Greenberg, our parents, Shadow, Hugh Pugh, and our incessantly supportive and patient friends from Geneseo and beyond. We <3 you all, especially the people we forgot to thank.

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Soft Cough is a New York state-based band that was formed in Geneseo, NY, a small college town outside of Rochester. We were extremely fortunate to be part of a prolific community of artists, musicians, and activists who all had a collective goal of propagating a creative community-based scene. We would not have been able to do this without the unconditional support of our friends and fans. ... more

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