| 1 | BOATS | 6:25 |
| 2 | ALIEN | 3:42 |
| 3 | WINDOW | 2:32 |
| 4 | NIGHTSHIFT | 4:12 |
| 5 | TOURIST | 5:38 |
| 6 | BELLS | 3:40 |
| 7 | FILM | 8:00 |
| 8 | CLOCKS | 6:43 |
| 9 | SATAN | 6:57 |
| 10 | WEAN | 6:40 |
Since the emergence of their falling-down-around-you sound documented on The Name of the Demon is… (2021), Cowboy Builder have gotten slower and steadier. Organs EP (2023) saw the addition of, well, organs, and strange harmonies started to blend with their double drums. On COLD, Cowboy Builder are even more unhurried - disconsolate, see-sawing melodica and flattened bongos giving a stoic, funereal repetitiousness somewhere between Kurt Weill and Augustus Pablo. Their signature wok clang and clatter is treated with delay, the guitar’s strings crossed and warped; another bell to ring us back to earth. It’s bleak, industrial music for a time where ‘industry’ is working nightshifts for Amazon and drinking Lidl box wine. And yet, side-stepping the trappings of hauntology in favour of science fiction, the endurance of it all and its relentless pursuit gives welcome relief midst a nation of thumbs.
Recorded Jan 2024 at SHUNK II, Edinburgh. Overdubs at TERT PALACE Edinburgh + MARSHALL TOWER, Falkirk.
Cowboy Builder is Kieron, Mani, Jordan, Josh
Cowboy Builder is Drums, Metal, Prepared Guitar, Organ, Melodica, Megaphone, Sampler, Delay
All music written by Cowboy Builder 2020-25
Dan Mutch from The Leg plays Wooden Flute on TOURIST, recorded in his living room.
Recorded + mixed by Plastic Cowboy Builder. Mastered by James Dunn. Artwork by Cowboy Builder. Design by Jeroen Wille.
Thanks to: Mike + Ruaridh, Musty Shed, Kangoo, P.A.J.McGhee, S.Frickleton, Caledonian Produce, Settlement Projects
Cowboy Builder is a band of 4-pieces. Two drumkits, made up of junk and found percussion, are joined by prepared guitar, kitchen sink vocals and decayed church organ. With elements of storytelling and performance, moments of warmth and conventional harmony exist amongst hostile alien textures and interlocking polyrhythms. The songs take place in a small living room, with not much furniture, knocked into a battered out-of-placeness by reality speeding up around it.
The new album COLD, released on CD via Bison on April 4th, contains threads of ideas that run throughout the band’s existence and was mostly written and recorded in makeshift rehearsal spaces across the central belt of Scotland at -1 degrees.
Cowboy Builder released ORGANS EP in 2023, as well as their first album "The Name of the Demon is..." in 2021 via PX4M. Amongst touring the UK and Europe whenever possible, the band made appearances at Supernormal in 2025 and Murf/Murw, Tilburg in 2023.
Cowboy Builder may have been secretly trading for longer under misleading handles and fake names. As members of Bamya and Dr. VZX Moist, previous releases include Bamya’s "Jolly Little Rococo Death March" in 2018 via Glasgow's GLARC, Dr. VZX Moist's "The Beautiful Ones in 2019, as well as Bamya & Dr. VZX Moist self-releasing "Split Tape" as a collaboration with with Horse Whisperer also in 2018.
