Description:	3" Limited CDs on Rusted Rail
	Format:	CD single
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	Rusted Rail
	Price:	£4.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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'Best Vacation Ever' by So Cow covers a lot of ground considering it's the work of one young Irish fella and his trusty 4 track recording device. Listening to 'Best Vacation Ever' is pretty much the sound of a man with a schizophrenic mentality toward songwriting and the an immense amount of freedom to explore different ideas due to his choice of recording technique. It's like listening to lots of different records compiled together but somehow 'So Cow' manage to weave some kind of consistency into all the madness. So we get synth pop ditties, acoustic folk ballads, electric lo-fi pop and piano based sing-a -long's. There's also a track that sounds so much like Calvin Johnson it's hard to believe it's not some long lost mysterious Beat Happening B-side or maybe a cheeky cover. This record seems to have a little bit of everything for everyone so it's most definitely worth further investigation. Out now on the ultra reliable Rusted Rail records.

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What their label says...

A kindred spirit of Jeffrey Lewis, Why? and Calvin Johnson, So Cow’s "Best Vacation Ever" e.p. draws on indie-rock and folked-up pop with smart, heartfelt lyrics made by one man and his four-track in the West of Ireland and overnight in a recording studio in South East Asia.

“So Cow plays a variety of songs which do not intuit a single sound. The guy's all over the place, touching on a different landmark with each song in the way only 4-track freedom allows: there's strolling piano sing-along in "Introduction", synth-pop in "Sang Mi & Yu Mi", a nice guitar-ballad in "The Apologist". Influence is evident as well: "Tillage" sounds like old Destroyer, "Oh For Fuck's Sake" maybe a cheeky Rob Crow circa Heavy Vegetable/Thingy, and "Bat Toes" something Calvin Johnson. In all, an unexpected trip through the last decade of indie music by someone with plenty of songs in his head.”  – Animal Psi

“Best Vacation Ever”
1. Introduction
2. Oh for fuck's sake
3. The apologist
4. Sang mi and yu mi
5. Tillage
6. Bat toes
7. Regretplatz
8. Jaguar song
9. Frankfurt