13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Cowboy Dan – Like Kerouac

Like Kerouac is the opening track on Cowboy Dan’s debut EP, We Will Hesitate, When We Eventually Wake, which was released today. 

Cowboy Dan, is comprised of twin brothers Leighton and Jared Edwards (drums), Chris Warne (guitar) and Sean Timlin (bass). They celebrate the release of the EP tonight at The Wine Cellar with support from local acts Spawts, The Naenae Express and Paprika Jones.

Listen to Like Kerouac here:

Here’s the record company blurb:

Cowboy Dan have dropped their debut EP ‘We Will Hesitate, When We Eventually Wake’, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Pearce (The Beths) and recorded by Tim Burrows (Albatross Audio Productions). With their own unique style of alt-music, the EP includes punchy tunes and happy sad love songs.

‘We Will Hesitate, When We Eventually Wake’, is the first collection from the band, who since forming in late 2015, have been steadily building a loyal following in the local music scene. The band has garnered a reputation for high energy, emotionally charged tunes and a warmth onstage that draws their crowd in. These traits resonate on this EP.

Jonathan Pearce, on Cowboy Dan “There’s a sentimentality to what these guys do – same with the song Happiness, it’s unashamed and rare in a lot of bands – you see so many bands hiding behind vagueness or noise and obscuring the emotion of what they do. That’s a good flavour!”

Leighton Edwards, Cowboy Dan’s guitarist and vocalist, says “Written sporadically over a few years, the songs on this EP paint some very different places and times. However, emotionally there is connectedness. ‘We Will Hesitate, When We Eventually Wake’ speaks to the reflective way in which one reviews and interprets their own feelings and experiences.
Leighton adds, ‘The narrative that runs throughout this EP is loose. It’s all brought together by the push/pull between what we are doing and what we think we want to be doing. There is both a desire for more, and contentment in the constructed memories as they stand.