Westside Cowboy reveal new EP; sign to Island Records imprint

Westside Cowboy - formed of Reuben Haycocks, Jimmy Bradbury, Aoife Anson O’Connell, and Paddy Murphy - have signed with Island Records imprint Adventure Recordings and unveiled plans for their second forthcoming EP, So Much Country 'Till We Get There.

This follows the release of the band's debut EP This Better Be Something Great in August, as well as a stint of festival appearances including Glastonbury, Green Man, and End of the Road.

So Much Country 'Till We Get There was recorded with Loren Humphrey in New York, who produced Cameron Winter's Heavy Metal LP. Westside Cowboy have shared a preview of the EP, lead single "Don't Throw Rocks".

"This started life as a fuzzy drum machine demo that Jimmy made in his bedroom and eventually made its way into the practice room ahead of our first headline at Castle Hotel. We tried it really fast and loud, with a new order disco beat across the entire thing basically. We finished it and were like ‘ This is good, right?’... none of us were really convinced. We were about to call it when we thought we’d have one last go. We kept the tempo but took the emphasis off of the snare and hats and instead onto the floor tom and its rims. This changed the feeling of the song a lot," the band say of the song.

"All of a sudden, instead of the song just being this 2-minute foghorn blare, it was now rumbling along and building. Jimmy’s lyrics on this deal a lot in time and change, and how it, more often than not, moves out of our control and without niceties. We wanted the music to reflect this too. With each section, we wanted to add a new gear, to increase the intensity until it couldn’t be held onto anymore. I guess that’s where the outro comes in. This felt like the natural first single for "So Much Country...", we all kinda knew once we’d heard it back.”

Westside Cowboy will be supporting Black Country, New Road across Europe, before embarking on their own headline tour through the UK and Ireland throughout November and January. The tour will feature their biggest headline show to date at Scala in London (28 January), in addition to several shows across major cities including Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester, and Bristol.