Exclusive video premiere of ‘Wildflowers’ by Cosmo Gold, taken from the upcoming album, ‘Krong’, out in November.

Today, LA alt-pop group Cosmo Gold announce their much-anticipated debut album, ‘Krong’: a record, yes, but also an intergalactic sonic experience, and invitation to an alternate universe. Welcome to ‘Krong’ – a place to find comfort in doubt as a virtue. A self-aware, almost-utopia that sheds light on the humanness of hesitancy. Because they say, “follow your heart” – but what if your heart is wrong? In their debut album, Cosmo Gold explore an alternate universe built around this question.

The album is the result of a highly collaborative effort & was co-produced by the band and their longtime engineer, Neil Wogensen (Valley Queen) and mixed by Jason Kingsland (Deerhunter, Belle & Sebastian). The band and Wogensen were living together when the pandemic struck and felt compelled to dive deep into their imaginations as a form of escape.

The album follows the story of a protagonist astronaut who, disillusioned by earthly desires and the petty nature of ego, travels through a web of inner & outer doubt to discover that everything is temporary and the only ‘Sure Thing’ is that “the answer is love” (From the closing track ‘Sure Thing feat. Paul Shaffer’). Along their journey we meet a cast of colorful characters including the ethereal Krong species (A little purple alien that the band has matching tattoos of), a sleazy Krongian salesman/preacher-type, and Golods (Ancient pyramid dwellers who guard the secrets of the Krongiverse).

With the album announcement, the band shares the lead single, ‘Wildflowers’, a psychedelic alt-pop trip into the Krongiverse. On the single, band member Emily Gold shares: “‘Wildflowers’ was written in the Summer of 2020, when lockdown took on almost a dreamy quality. Life slowed down dramatically and I spent a lot of time aimlessly walking around Highland Park, where the band was living at the time and just sitting outside, daydreaming. I was thriving internally, counter to what was happening in the world externally. I began to reflect on the fleeting nature of the seasons and how I hadn’t noticed all the wild flowers in our neighborhood in previous years because I had been too busy. It absolutely broke my heart. In what felt like a “nature is healing” moment, a dove decided to lay its eggs right outside our window. The whole house watched for weeks on end all the way from the bird building its nest to the baby birds taking their first flight. It was something out of a storybook and I’m not sure we would have noticed it in our busy lives before. The song is about wanting to be present and patient in life”.

She continues: “The song itself has a swirling melody with a pop pulse but what really makes this track special is the beat I originally created for the demo was transformed by Mike to be 100% sampled real bird sounds, in particular the birds of Highland park, which creates an organic heartbeat. Just as nature is unpredictable, the song departs halfway through and travels through the wilderness of Krong, propelled by Stephen’s psychedelic guitar work”.