Music:
Member Since: 10/19/2005
Band Website: cogwheeldogs.com
Band Members: Rebecca Mosley:
Vocals/guitar
Tom Parnell:
Cello/backing vocals
Free Cogwheel Dogs mp3s for download on
Cogwheel Dogs' website and
Last FM
To sign up for our FREE debut single 'Cress' out on Feb 8th - click here
Influences: Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Bach, Leonard Cohen, Prokoviev, Bjork, Canteloube, Bob Dylan, Britten, Lonepigeon, Ally Craig, John Lennon, Hole, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, West Side Story...
Sounds Like:
Of Rebecca Mosley: "... songwriters are 10 a penny, especially in quaint middle-class places like Oxford - but wait!- she's good."
Radar/The Buzz - NME August 2006
"... an
extraordinary amount of punk rock
spirit with [a] taut, at times
aggressive, take on the acoustic
singer-songwriter style. [Mosley] has
a beautifully clear and untainted
voice and delivers lyrics with
breathy confidence. There's real
power to what she's doing ...
It may be the arrangement of the
music, going beyond the realms of
standard strum/fingerpick into more
esoteric areas. It may be the quirky
style of [cellist Tom Parnell], who hacks
and paws at the strings to add
undercurrents of dissonance and
atonality to the sound ... [Mosley is] absolutely free of
pretence and posturing,
delivering rich, captivating songs
that have the crowd in the palm of
her hand ... "
Live Review @ The Cellar - Nightshift Magazine, February 2007
"... Harsh acoustic songs like
Morning Warning Chorus can suddenly soar into a state of unreal beauty. [The] music is pretty inspired."
Live Review - the-mag.co.uk November 2006
"... initially your reviewer was disconcerted by the violence, not to
say ferocity of the opening number: rather than the usual sugar-sweet
root notes, demon cellist Tom Parnell seemed to be playing a Bartok fantasia over
Mosley's angular guitar ... an essay in jolting
the audience out of their complacency.
Mosley's singing style [is at times] menacing, bluesy and stylish, sounding rather like Fiona Apple in her glory days. An instant later and her effortless soprano kicks in ... [Lyrically] stronger than most ... [she covers] dark subjects"
Live Review - Oxfordbands.com September 2006
"I really like the songs, a wicked voice and a real haunting quality..."
Marsha Shandur - XFM January 2007
"... rightfully making [their] presence felt locally and beyond ... gothic cello adds a vague air of threat to otherwise sweetly-natured songs. [Songs range] from the frantic clamouring,
Power in Paper to the absolutely gorgeous, haunting
Queues - the seven minute stand out track on the demo. Stark, earthy, expansive and lonely ... wider critical and commercial acclaim is sure to follow ..."
Demo of the Month - Nightshift May 2006
"....taking their music to a new dimension...the brand new single from Cogwheel Dogs....I'm properly loving this now - a bit left-field or what! It's wicked. Really good...and well worth downloading the free tracks really, really good stuff..."
Matt Lee - BBC SubCulture Feb 2008
"Tom's cello scrapes and wheezes obnoxiously around Rebecca's more tenderly-strummed melody on 'Cress', giving it an urgent bite...the vocals retaining a demure nature while occasionally spitting lines out like bitter pips. 'Anticoagulant' is an even better demonstration of this restlessness...an almost frantic determination to collapse in on itself. Like the plant it takes its name from, 'Cress' is an odd little thing at first glance, seemingly unlovable, but with a little patience the end result is unexpectedly rewarding."
Sue Foreman - Nightshift single review of 'Cress' March 2008
"Great stuff...definitely something to play on the show"
Jim Gellatly - XFM February 2008
Record Label: 'free'
Type of Label: None
