WildCookie – Something About Those Days
One of the CDs that I’m most excited about in my current 4 pack for the KPFK fundraiser is this new collaboration between Freddie Cruger aka Red Astaire and singer Anthony Mills. Together they form WildCookie and make some really sharp modern electronic soul. This full-length record builds off of a prior EP, and includes many of the “drug” tracks from that release, including “Heroine,” and “Serious Drug.” One of the new originals for the LP is “Something About Those Days,” which brings to mind a heavy dose of 1990s nostalgia (especially this classic from Pete Rock & CL Smooth) and makes me feel like summer has come a little early here in 2011.
Here also is a short film made for their song “Heroine,” also from this record, that I think clears up nicely whether or not this is an anti/pro drug kind of song: