Cool Coma is the debut album by Phern, a five piece band out
of Montreal, Canada. This band is really great and really strange. I listened
to the entire cassette while I was walking to get dinner a few nights ago. After
the first listen, I wasn’t entirely sure what to think. Most of their songs
have ghost like vocals with guitar that isn’t exactly twanging, but it’s close.
Their songs get going the second they start, and they don’t stop for anything
until it’s done.
I can’t quite put my finger on a way to describe their sound
because it’s really something I haven’t heard before. They use typical formulas
for the composition of their songs, but the instrumentation makes it sound as if
they might be using thousands of dollars worth of amps and pedals, or it could
be the oldest, cheapest, worst gear they could find. I truly can’t tell. What I
can tell you is that this band has a very unique quirk in their sound that
makes me keep coming back to try to figure out what it is. Whatever it is, I’m
on board.
- Garrett Douglas
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