COUGH - Still They Pray 2LP power pop and MOTHER MERRY GO ROUND

and MOTHER MERRY GO ROUND delivers two striking songs that split the difference between Orange Juice and Joy Division

180-gram vinyl release featuring original artwork

the collapsible sound of From Her to Eternity (1984) speaks to the Bad Seeds' hastily assembled origins and fluid instrumental roles

drug addiction/overdose

COUGH - Still They Pray 2LP power pop and MOTHER MERRY GO ROUNDDespite the torpid, brooding doom metal they make, Cough began in something of a hurry. During its first five years, the Richmond quartet issued an auspicious debut EP, a split LP, and two very strong full lengths, which colored the bleak grays of doom and the lurid greens of stoner metal with rainbow swirls of psychedelic rock. They jumped to Relapse Records, the giant of their field, for 2010s menacing Ritual Abuse and, suddenly, went silent. One