Cosmic Tiger is an up-and-coming indie pop band from Birmingham, UK consisting of 17-year-olds Eva Clarke, Brandon Cooke, Lydia Morris, and Mason Jolley. They released their debut album "Controlled" in early 2017 which reached the top 40 charts on Radio 1. The band members come from musical families and began playing together in 2016, developing a unique indie pop sound influenced by bands like Arctic Monkeys and The Killers. They have been gaining popularity through gigs in Birmingham and are working hard to achieve success at a young age through their independent spirit and collaborative songwriting process.

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Are you similar t Cosmic Tiger? They’re all 17 years old. Listen too the Artic Monkeys and cannot wait
for The Killers’ new album release later on this year. Eva Clarke, Brandon Cooke, Lydia Morris and
Mason Jolley enjoy nothing more than hanging out with each other while creating fresh new music.
Introducing their new 2017 debut album ‘Controlled’(produced by Jim Abbiss of Arctic Monkeys fame),
Cosmic Tiger styled themselves as the indie band that have a hint of pop. To add to the mixture, there live
gigs and meet ups have made the UK go crazy since forming in 2016.
Writing from Birmingham’s central café, sipping and thinking; there’s an exclusive interview on Cosmic
Tiger and their sound. Together they create beguiling indie music accompanied by unique mixes of noises.
Eva, main singer of csomic Tiger was saying “We’re all about being different. We want to produce raw
music like no-one else; even it means some don’t like it. We’re not going to follow.” With the support of
family, friends and co-producer Jay Clarke (Eva’s father), Domino Recording Company gave them their
first ever record deal back in early 2016 which hit the top 40 charts on Radio 1 just 2 weeks later. I started
to wonder how they got in to music and how far back this whole processs started and Clarke claimed
“Well, it sounds so typical of any artist to do this but I started recording on Youtube.” “I was then found
by the Atric Monkeys’ producer, Domino Recording Company, giving me a shot at this whole muisc
industry business!” Eva came together with schoolfriends, Lydia and Brandon, to then meet with
Brandon’s best mate and now thei drummer, Mason Jolley. the band began to grow in popularity across the
West Midlands, receiving attention from BBC Radio and the British tabloid pres.
“Id have to say, that was one of the most important days of my life so far” Clarke chuckled and stated. “I
guess that’s what formed our band Cosmic Tiger. We live in such a small community, this has to be the
best achievement for us.”
The album ‘Controlled’ features a range of different beats from true indie sounds to more pop-ish beats.
Morris explained that a bonus track on the special edition album is soon to be released 1 week after the
original Controlked album release. (Find out more at www.lockedmag.com) “Our album is built up of all
our favourite beats, vocals and personalitties which cause us to be different to any indie band in the UK”
Brandon stated. I wanted to know if their joyrney has been difficult so far, Jolley said “nothings easy if
you want to do well, but the greatest feeling is achieving something brill.” Some singles included in the

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album ‘Fever’, ‘Dark Nights’, ‘In the Clouds’ and ‘Complicated’ are to do with being young, escapism
and having fun.
Eva spoke “I would say that our music collaborative, although we all take the different roles in song
writing.” Mason explained “I’m the beat, Brandons is respoonsible for the piano, Eva’s vocals and Lydia’s
guitar. Without us all working together there wouldn’t be Cosmic Tiger… only Cosmic without the Tiger”
he laughed.
As we’re all surrounded by the most successfulindie pop artists/bands; Maroon 5, The Artic Monkrys
along with old favs’ Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Killers, what makes Cosmic Tiger so different? Lydia
commented “it’s our independence, individuality and age. We want to be the new upcoming indie pop
band that does actually appeal to young people but also an older audience. I feel we can relate better to our
fans.”
As we all got more comfortabe in the café, Brandon added “Our style is probably one of the main things
that make us, not to mention the music aspect duuuuuh” Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) is Cooke’s
biggest influence for music and style.
Cosmic Tiger perfoemd at some gigs in B’ham in early 2016.‘We took part at the Hare & Hounds
(http://hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk/) and The Rainbow Venues (http://therainbowvenues.co.uk/) where
indie rock band Two Door Cinema Club played.’
Mason stated “theres one coming up in 5 weeks, Saturday April 29th
2017. “This is going to be our biggest
gig at Rainbow.” To find out more check out: www.lockedmag.com/cosmic-tiger/ for updates and info.
To that end, they all contributed about their inspiration “Mainly it’s got to be Maroon 5 and Kings of
Leon” said Clarke.
Mason added “I still respect Catfish and the Bottlemen as they’re my kind of people. Even though they’re
a rock band, I love their style of music… one quote from a interview with McCann is ‘We don’t go out
partying because we don’t feeel like we’ve got anything to party about, we’re still not where we want to be
and we’ll do anything to get there.’ That inspires me as were getting older and want to be just as
successful.”

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This simple effective ethos that Cosmic Tiger have tried to portray through their music, is clealry
working at such a young age, these 4 are on to something very big. Keep your eyes peeled, they’ll be
bringing some more ROARING hits sooon.