title: Cog - The New Normal

date: April 2005

URL: http://www.musicnsw.com/releases/index.php?id=29

writer: Music NSW

Cog - The New Normal
Difrnt Music
(Rock)

It’s hard to deny that Cog are a special band. After several, is when their debut album The New Normal reveals itself as an extraordinary piece of work. Indeed, let’s come right out and say it: this is nothing less than a seminal Australian album. It’s undeniable. The intelligence of the music, the uncompromising musicality, the epic grandeur of the songs.

This is a truly progressive sound, and not just because of any mere technical proficiency of the playing, but because each track takes the listener on its own sonic journey. And having witnessed their live shows, The New Normal is the album that captures perfectly the volume of air that gets shifted, the hypnotic sway of the music, and the sheer dynamic power of the band. It delivers. Suffice to say, it’s what Cog fans have been waiting for it, and is only going to earn them more.