LA based pop-punk trio Cold Weather Kids have just released their sophomore EP ‘Quarantunes’!
The EP was created during the height of the pandemic and offers doses of reflection and positivity around that period in time. ‘Quarantunes’ gets 2021 off to a much more optimistic start and slams the door in the face of 2020!
Opening track ‘Keep Me Warm’ gets the EP off to a really high-energy start. It is a frantic, theatrical pop-punk song which slightly challenges the genre’s typical conventions – broadening the spectrum of possibilities for the rest of ‘Quarantunes’.
‘You’re My Player 2’ is more toned-down than is predecessor and is laced with gaming metaphors about the challenges we have faced over the past year and ways in which we can overcome them. This reiterates the idea of the hope people have for 2021 and people’s determination to make it better than 2020 even though “the final boss is way too hard”.
‘Quarantunes’ ends on traditional acoustic pop-punk song ‘Nothing New, but it’s meant For You’. It is quite a low energy track so in some ways it is a bit of a disappointing end after the energy of the other songs. However, it portrays an optimistic front about the world today and in that sense, it leaves the listener on a positive note. It encourages you not to dwell on bad days, and instead appreciate the good in our lives, something which will really resonate with people at this time.