Hello Cosmos - Come Out Tonight (Cosmic Glue) 
Release Date: 23rd January 2026
Hello Cosmos are some sort of amalgamation of an international indie supergroup and an underground resistance movement, and if ever we needed something like that then now is the time. I don't think they have matching outfits or superhero names but they've got each other's backs, they've got a belly full of rage and, boy oh boy, they have some songs too. 'Come Out Tonight' is the collective's first album for around five years and kicks off with the sandblast of sound that is 'Joy Is The Way', a song which starts like someone shouting at you from the basement and evolves into a Mark E. Smith inspired comment on the times we live in emerging from a fog of distortion. 'Grind Into The Shrine' maintains the intensity with a preacher-esque vocal delivery from the Reverend Ben Robinson underpinned by some furious drumming and the kind of bassline that will the subject of many a paternity test.
The spacey psychedelia of 'Spin The Wheel' has elements of Henge to it in amongst the buzzing guitars and Star Trek aesthetic while 'Turn Off The News' pings and pogos like the last punk at a disco fuelled by equal amounts of injustice and love for humanity. 'Echo (A2Z)' emerges from a cacophony with some performance poetry doing battle with a lurching drum sound and clattering guitars before 'Gig Buddies' settles into a more familiar punk-rock gait, spitting truth, opinion and no small amount of mind bending philosophy. The anit-Meta anthem and recent single 'FUK ZUK' still swings and lurches like a zombie Orangutan DJing in a post apocalyptic Ibiza club but 'Hot Seat' leans more towards the Gorillaz meets the Prodigy end of the spectrum with a sense or urgency only bridled by the razor-like focus.
There is, finally, a let up in the intensity on 'Awake & Bake' as a bouncing bass line allows the guitar melody to float effortlessly through clouds with an early Sunday morning vibe that doesn't quite let you know whether it's a late night or an early start. Penultimate track 'Black Gloss' is a scintillating combination of Primal Scream, Goose, Black Grape and Never Not Nothing with energy to burn, a confident swagger, and the kind of vibe you can just lose yourself in. This joyride of an album comes to rolling stop on 'Old Friends Know' - the band's arms in the anthem that builds from a piano and vocal jam into the kind of soaring, life-affirming, tear jerking song that unites crowds and stops wars (he said optimistically). There is A LOT going on during this album but then there is a lot going on in the world right now and this album reflects that like a scuzzy time capsule buried under the city streets for future mutant generations to find. Good luck to us all.
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