Category: STATE COWS

For more than a decade, STATE COWS is one of very few modern yacht rock / westcoast / AOR bands that creates new original music. The band consists of Daniel Andersson on vocals / guitars and Stefan Olofsson on keyboards / bass. Many guest musicians have contributed to their recordings and live gigs, most notably Jay Graydon, Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, Michael Landau, to name afew.
After being releasing EP’s in recent times, “High and Dry” is their new full length album where everything you love about this musical genre is served with class. These Swedes replicate the Californian summertime like few out there.
“High and Dry” showcases a slightly different approach than previous STATE COWS recordings; while there’s still classic Westcoast smooth songs, others are Lite AOR / retro in a similar fashion of The Night Flight Orchestra, Cats In Space, even Alan Parsons…

Swedish combo STATE COWS is one of the current bands most faithful to the classic sound of early ’80s West Coast AOR. They have a couple of full length albums and some EP’s, however in recent time they joined the trend of releasing new songs as singles every 2 months or so. During the last year they put out 8 new songs (the last May 3), now compiled by themselves under the title “Challenges”.
Characterized for their crystal clear studio recordings with a clinical attention to detail in the style of the L.A. Session golden era, this new State Cows collection of songs is just another superb slice of smooth AOR.
Darn, they even got the legendary Michael Landau dropping a sweet solo on one track here.
Overall, many of the songs into “Challenges” are more AOR / melodic rock oriented than their previous work. Just check…

Swedes STATE COWS, perhaps the band active today most faithful to the classic sound of early ’80s West Coast AOR, are releasing new material under the title “Stealing The Show“.
Characterized for their pristine studio recordings in a clinical quality akin the major production mold from the L.A. Session golden era, this new State Cows offering is just another superb slice of smooth AOR.
Sporting that joyful, organic sound that made Toto number one in their game, ‘Stuck On A Train’ is the dynamic opener featuring wonderful vocals by Daniel Andersson, lots of sweet guitar lines and shuffle drumming in the best Jeff Porcaro technique.
Then the elegant, organic sound in the vein of Airplay / Jay Graydon appears on ‘Holly Mole’, whilst title track ‘Stealing The Show’ is very classy mixing Chicago, Maxus and Robbie Dupree into one single song. In many ways, it recalls some Peter Friestedt solo albums.