Cold War Kid Finish & Release Song They Started 20 Years Ago With “There Goes The Night”
It was two decades ago when Cold War Kids released their debut album Robbers & Cowards. Now in celebration of the album’s 20th anniversary, Cold War Kids will release a special expanded edition of Robbers & Cowards later this year that will feature several songs written during the album’s original era that were left unfinished at the time and have now been newly recorded by the band. The first of these finished and rerecorded tracks is There Goes The Night.
“‘There Goes The Night’ is the first song we are releasing of four songs that were unfinished from the Robbers & Cowards days and it’s one of my favorite Cold War Kids songs ever,” says singer Nathan Willett. “To finish these lyrics, I put myself back in this time when a bunch of band guys and assorted friends lived in Long Beach in this house at 8th and Orange. We were crossing the line into becoming adults—holding on to youth for dear life. That intimacy and brutal honesty you have when friendships are family is really special. It has that gospel rock thing, kinda like U2’s Rattle and Hum or The Band, that feels like it’s always existed.”