Cop Warmth claim to be Houston’s most hated. Though they don’t get any more specific than that, if Destruction Unit on heavy solvents sounds like something that floats your boat you won’t be hating on the six-piece’s loud and unfledged noise rock.Though they've had an album released on Los Angeles label In the Red (Cheater Slicks, Reigning Sound,The Dirtbombs), the tracks on their new EP Trash Gods bring to mind early Am Rep gruel with gritty Butthole Surfers like Texan punk. It’s loud, bruising and not at all pretty.Read a quick chat with the band and listen to Trash Gods below.Noisey: On your Facebook page there’s a photo of a bicycle polo bike. You don't seem like a bike polo kind of band.
Craig: That was after passing out at some kind strangers house in Columbus during our first tour in 2011. I think they had a plethora of hot sauces as well but I can't verify because I partied too hard that entire trip.
Dan: We never played bike polo but my friend from Michigan used to be in a tall bike crew. They're fun and all, but fuck bike crews.You also played in a house show in Atlanta in a hallway.
Craig: We played two shows that night, the first was at a venue called the Graveyard. They sound checked us for 45-minutes and let us drink free beer in a green room. It was very professional, then after that show we loaded up and set up in a narrow hallway and blasted through our 10-minute set. Some freak with fresh bullet wounds tried to get real friendly with us as well.
Dan: Well we got a bunch of free molly from some kids that had just gotten shot at in their neighborhood. Nice kids.You don’t seem to be a typical In the Red band. How did Larry pick up on you?
Chris: Because we're the shit in H-town and Geo from the Cutters has a connection with Larry and asked him if he would put a record out for us and Larry made it happen.I’m liking your track “Vanity Shrine”.
Craig: The idea behind the song was just to tear down ego. It's so weird to have people in this weird little noise/hardcore micro scene act like rock stars. As for the sound I think it's one of the first songs we wrote after figuring out what parts we all played in the big picture of our sound.
Dan: We stole the name from some boring goth band from Houston that was only together a few months. But they later changed their name to something French.
Chris: The song is about a person who will not be named but last I heard he is trying to sleep with every single girl in Los Angeles. Good luck with that.
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Craig: That was after passing out at some kind strangers house in Columbus during our first tour in 2011. I think they had a plethora of hot sauces as well but I can't verify because I partied too hard that entire trip.
Dan: We never played bike polo but my friend from Michigan used to be in a tall bike crew. They're fun and all, but fuck bike crews.You also played in a house show in Atlanta in a hallway.
Craig: We played two shows that night, the first was at a venue called the Graveyard. They sound checked us for 45-minutes and let us drink free beer in a green room. It was very professional, then after that show we loaded up and set up in a narrow hallway and blasted through our 10-minute set. Some freak with fresh bullet wounds tried to get real friendly with us as well.
Dan: Well we got a bunch of free molly from some kids that had just gotten shot at in their neighborhood. Nice kids.You don’t seem to be a typical In the Red band. How did Larry pick up on you?
Chris: Because we're the shit in H-town and Geo from the Cutters has a connection with Larry and asked him if he would put a record out for us and Larry made it happen.I’m liking your track “Vanity Shrine”.
Craig: The idea behind the song was just to tear down ego. It's so weird to have people in this weird little noise/hardcore micro scene act like rock stars. As for the sound I think it's one of the first songs we wrote after figuring out what parts we all played in the big picture of our sound.
Dan: We stole the name from some boring goth band from Houston that was only together a few months. But they later changed their name to something French.
Chris: The song is about a person who will not be named but last I heard he is trying to sleep with every single girl in Los Angeles. Good luck with that.
'Trash Gods' is available now.