Single Of The Week - "A Cold War City" by AMMO

AMMO is a LA based songwriter, photographer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer whose spellbinding music chills, thrills and takes you to a place of dreamy decadence, desolate abandon, whilst nestling in a Nu gaze sky of translucent tones. As an artist, AMMO shoegazes at the stars, whilst reflecting from the vaporous mist of the moon in an aftermath of dream-pop dew. AMMO is a mesmeric mix of mystical melancholy and otherworldly harmonies that tilts towards Folktronica in a soul-gathering of tribal beats, celestial synths and stellar strums. Like the long-lost daughter of Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil and Slowdive, AMMO makes music that revisits past glories of darkwave music, whilst screening from the film-art house of surrealism and noir. A real talent, AMMO’s music is hauntingly beautiful, whose exquisite vocals, astral glide and shines from the constellations of ethereal rock.

Following the success of her debut single “Rose & Crown”, with the B-side “Total Recall”, released on June 4th 2021, AMMO has been busy working on her forthcoming debut album “‘The Great Chaos’, under her label Mourning Sun Records. Taken from the album is AMMO’s latest single “A Cold War City”, which has been selected as my “Single of the Week”.

Released on December 10th 2021, “A Cold War City” creates an ethereal escapade between space and time, sneaking down the post-punk passages of dark-wave, whilst lost in a haze of dreampop mist. It’s a mesmerising track, whose sugar-coated vocals linger from the lineage of Bilinda Butcher, Rachel Goswell, Natasha Khan and Trish Keenan whilst drifting towards neo-classical heights. Through the backdrop of atmospheric aesthetics, A Cold War City creates a cinematic soundscape of spectral synths, that whisper, shiver, quiver and levitate in a dusky drone of tension and suspense. Along with the eerie beats and neo-psychedelic strums, A Cold War City floats towards an Eastern bloc of ghostly chants, whilst prowling on the sonic stairway of shoegaze. It’s a nocturnal navigation into the nebulous corners of its mind, that repaints, sonic-sprays and rewrites the graffiti on the walls.

https://soundcloud.com/musicbyammo/a-cold-war-city/s-20ZCjLqWX3t

Order the single https://music.musicbyammo.com/acoldwarcity
‘Rose + Crown / Total Recall’ https://musicbyammo.bandcamp.com/album/rose-crown
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ACr4NjPUStbHIPsj68wha

From December 10th 2021 ‘A Cold War City’ is available across online stores and streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp.

CREDITS
Written and performed by AMMO
Drums and percussion by Alex Posell
Produced by AMMO and Alex Posell
Mixed and mastered by Robert Duncan IV
Released by Mourning Sun Records
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA