Vitamin D, by Cousin Kula

Vitamin D

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1.	Clothes Off 05:42		buy track
2.	Poisoned 04:05		buy track
3.	Staying With You 04:48		buy track
4.	Hangin' On Your Lips 02:50	info	buy track
5.	Softest Touch 04:11		buy track
6.	The Sun 03:10		buy track
7.	Disney G Funk 03:16		buy track
8.	Summer's Comin Bébé 05:00		buy track
9.	Good Feelin' 02:45		buy track
10.	Time > Money 03:45		buy track

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Feeling like the first shot of sunshine after a long winter, Cousin Kula sound instantly recognisable yet gloriously renewed on their second album ‘Vitamin D’. If their debut album ‘Double Dinners’ was the soundtrack to your heartbreak then this is the sound of falling back in love again. Even the titles of the tracklist - 'Clothes Off', 'Staying With You’, 'Good Feeling' - boldly set the coordinates for this new body of work. From the opening wash of searing synth chords, bouncing bass, wailing guitar lines and flutters of flute, it's abundantly clear this is a feel good album. Label boss Bradley Zero exclaims “I think it’s fair to say that the band have shaken off the collective cobwebs and are ready for a summer of love!”.

Singer Elliot Ellison explains “We really wanted this album to be playful and fun, not taking itself too seriously. Be representative of us as a group and the energy we have when just goofing around, for that to be something you feel in the music too. Lyrically it covers many themes but especially steps into “Happy Love Songs”, which feels like a new venture for us”.

‘Vitamin D’ is for the lovers, but also for the dancers. Cousin Kula have expanded their vocabulary but also learnt when to just sit back in the groove. Funk and disco has permeated their psychedelic indie-soul sound and it’s all the better for it. A quintet of virtuosic musicians, flexing when necessary but more often than not stripping it right back and reveling in the pocket. It’s a rare case of perfect thematic and musical synergy.

Elliot continues "We explored more instrumentation on this album and stretched previously underused corners of our ability. Will and Elliot play trombone and trumpet on a few tunes, Doug plays flute on the whole album (and strangely, no saxophone!), and there's a whole lot more percussion. It's been fun experimenting with the vocals on this album too, we wanted to really lean into the ‘weird’. Likewise with the vocal harmonies, we wanted to make that feature of our sound even more of a thing on this album, like going a bit more sexy BeeGees on it".

Living together, nestled in the sun-drenched hills on the outskirts of Bristol, Cousin Kula released their first full length 'Double Dinners' on Rhythm Section Intl. in 2021. The album received praise from BBC 6 Music, Boiler Room, Clash, Crack, and The Guardian, to name a few, and saw the band tour the UK with Mildlife on top of their own non-stop live escapades.

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released March 15, 2024

Cousin Kula are:
Elliot Ellison - vocals, trumpet, guitar
Will Wells - keyboards, trombone
Doug Cave - synths, flute
Jordan Woollgar - guitars
Joe Milkinson - drums

Mastered by Bill Sellar
Mixed by Doug Cave

Artwork by Elliot Ellison

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Cousin Kula Bristol, UK

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May 3

Basement, YES

Manchester, UK
May 9

Jazz Cafe

Camden, UK
May 10

Strange Brew

Bristol, UK
May 10

Jazz Cafe

Camden, UK
May 11

ALPHABET

Brighton, UK

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