Cold Court

It’s tempting to say that you’ve never heard music quite like what Philadelphia group Cold Court is doing on their debut EP, but that’s not quite right. You’ve probably heard a lot of music that sounds like this. You just haven’t heard it all at once. Sideways rhythms, approximations of salsa, peg-legged shuffles, grungy little garage rock riffs, organ runs from the feathered-hair era, The Mars Volta, that proggy one-hit wonders Focus, Death Grips, glitchy Aphex Twin filters, radio emo, splashy jazz drums à la Elvin Jones, uncomfortable time signatures, dubstep-style rhythmic interventions. And that’s just in the first song.