Hello Cosmos Release "Love Is Waiting" + New EP 'Old Friends Know' - Listen Now

The final track recorded as part of their critically acclaimed 'Come Out Tonight' album session at Greenmount Studios in Leeds, working with producers Rob Slater (Westside Cowboy) and Jamie Lockhart.

Ben Robinson walks us through its arrival:

“An ode to the realities of true love being forgotten in the everyday and how it's always waiting for us if we go out into the world to find nature or people to share our lives with. Angela Chan features with some stunning violin fx and analogue tape machines were experimentally used to give some texture and hiss to the piano and guitar parts.

I’ve never sang in such a soft range before, When Rob & Jamie just kept saying ‘sing quieter, no quieter.. no even quieter’ I checked it wasn't an April fools as it felt so odd given my usual style of vocals. I loved the result so much we’ve recorded a full record in the same vein which should be out later in the year”

The new track arrives as part of a new EP showcasing the softer side of the Hello Cosmos universe. A single version of the epic album closing track ‘Old Friends Know’ is accompanied by a remix by their old friends Lost Colours which takes the track into new territory with low fi electronica worthy of a play at any afterparty around 2am. Joe Thompson reshapes ‘Awake and Bake’ into a stunning piece of electric wizardry with new synths and vibes under his Modsync monica.

Celebrating 10 years as a recording project, HELLO COSMOS have burst back into being with a flurry of new activity. Alongside new shows, sessions, and singles, arrives the release of ‘Come Out Tonight’, a brand new album.

Confirmed to feature over a long list of collaborators, the album takes influence from all corners of the globe with its studio recording sessions taking place in New York City, Los Angeles, Kampala, Leeds, Stockport and Manchester. Produced by Jamie Lockhart at Greenmount Studios in Leeds, who has produced all of their studio records to date, it arrives as Hello Cosmos’ first studio album proper in over 5 years, following their acclaimed debut ‘Dream Harder’ in 2020. Of the upcoming record, frontman Ben Robinson says:

“A lot of the upcoming record is about finding the strength to switch off digital screens and go out and live. It’s becoming more and more normalised to stay in, comatosed by ultraprocessed food and algorithms firing shallow dopamine hits, keeping us all hooked on a short wavelength, gradually becoming dumber, hopeless and unhealthy... We all need to wake each other up, get off the cool aid of digital apps, social media and algorithmic scrolling.”

Reappearing with a new look line-up, Hello Cosmos currently feature leader and creative force Ben Robinson (co-founder of Kendal Calling & bluedot) and his brother Simon (drums), and strings/synth maestro Angela Chan (Placebo / Lanterns on the Lake), performing alongside bassist/percussionist Isaac Dobson (Dobbo) and guitarist Alex Beston of Vacant Weekend, sax/synth whizz Frankie Pigeon (Dilettante/BC Camplight), and harmonica player Oli Brown (of Herelduke, who also notably produced Hello Cosmos’ ‘Golden Dirt’ mixtape).

While it may seem like aeons that the band have been away, behind the scenes Hello Cosmos have been fervently building their own studio, creative space & label: Cosmic Glue. With the fruits of their labours ripe and ready for revelation, new album ‘Come Out Tonight’ is just the beginning. With a further new album and a blissed-out “comedown album” also due for release in the imminent future, an intrepid new chapter for Hello Cosmos is upon us. Hold tight.