Cold War Kids Enjoy Loyalty

09/08/08 12:57pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

California's Cold War Kids will release their sophomore album, Loyalty To Loyalty, on Sept. 23 through Downtown Recordings.

Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust told Rolling Stone that the album was influenced by philosopher Josiah Royce, who wrote extensively about loyalty, and novelist Ayn Rand. You can hear "Something Is Not Right With Me" on Cold War Kids' MySpace page.

Nathan Willett (vocals, piano, guitar), Matt Maust (bass), Jonnie Russell (guitar) and Matt Aveiro (drums) began playing together in 2004 and released three EPs before dropping their Robbers & Cowards debut album in 2006. Their music has also been used in episodes of Entourage, Gossip Girl and The Sarah Silverman Program. Maust's black and white photographs also appear in What It Is: What It Is, a book he co-authored with Paul G. Maziar.

You can see Cold War Kids at Vancouver's Richard's On Richards on Sept. 28.

Here are the songs on Loyalty To Loyalty:

"Against Privacy"
"Mexican Dogs"
"Every Valley Is Not A Lake"
"Something Is Not Right With Me"
"Welcome To The Occupation"
"Golden Gate Jumpers"
"Avalanche In B"
"I've Seen Enough"
"Every Man I Fall For"
"Dreams Old Men Dream"
"On The Night My Love Broke Through"
"Relief"
"Cryptomnesia"