Cousin Betty Awol

After releasing 2 highly regarded singles 'Drone' and 'Tape Hiss', COUSIN BETTY have released their debut EP LEFT via Golden Robot Records, it is now available on all digital platforms. COUSIN BETTY's sound is a mesh of distorted and psychedelic influenced indie desert rock with some grungy garage infused overtones.  
 
To celebrate the release of LEFT, Cousin Betty have released a video for the track 'AWOL'.

ABOUT 'AWOL' - ''Damien had recorded this one and 'Loan Sharks of Love' in their entirety before I heard them, at the time we'd been toying with the notion of compiling songs themed around war and battles. It prompted me to write about my Grandfather, a great man and a WW2 vet. Young tough and full of misplaced patriotic verve - like most of the boys his age, he left to fight whichever enemy Churchill deemed worthy of throwing troops at. In addition to being brave, he was also a bit of a renegade and spent quite a bit of time in various prison cells; some of which he'd been forced to build himself. A side of my Grandfather few new, was his profound romantic streak; a characteristic perfectly demonstrated by going AWOL before deployment just so he could marry his sweetheart. They married, he returned for court martial, served a brief sentence for going AWOL and then deployed to the sands of Egypt to shoot at bad guys. The tragedy of this romantic gesture, is that my Grandma once told me that the man who came home to her, wasn't the same man she married. The horrors of the all he'd seen and lost had left substantial scars. Still, beyond his occasional irritability and, rarer still, displays of rage, the spontaneity of his wedding and heroism of knowing how much trouble he'd be in, is the story that best serves my memory of him'' - Matt  
 
Cousin Betty is the brainchild of Australia's Damien Stofka a guitarist/songwriter, who has created riffs and written songs for Molten Universe, Death Mattel, LITTER and various other projects for the last 15 years.