The NEW NORMAL
Organic in the sense that cog play their instruments, some people would say cog’s music resembles some sort of progressive rock that flows effortlessly from thick slabs of distorted guitars, twisting rhythms through to vast playgrounds of ambient organospace and back again. Not shy to incorporate sequencing and sampling to propagate more ideas in a live and recording environment, cog feels this has opened the possibilities for more musical exploration.
Although cog’s internal ideological foundations are still in a relatively embryonic state, it feels as though some sort of catalyzation has been occurring. It involves notions of dissent and insurrection, anti-authoritarianism and revolution, egalitarianism, social rationalism, freedom and truth, environmentalism, progressive anarcho-syndicalism and radical democracy, balance and equilibrium, cooperation and reconciliation.
These are ideas that have fascinated and intrigued the members of cog throughout the bands history. Topics of this nature constantly re-emerge in conversation and dialectical discussions. It’s beginning to appear as though there is some sort of symbiotic relationship developing between the conscious decision to devote cog’s life to music and the need to express and participate in some sort of social commentary.
