Today, Tough Cookie release their debut 8-track mixtape ‘The Countryside Is Good For You’ with the emphatic lead single ‘Disappear’ – listen here. Frontperson August shares, “I wrote Disappear about the gradual distance I put between myself and everyone I care about, and the lingering thought that maybe no one saw it happen.”
Last Thursday saw the band play a blistering set at London’s Omeara for the final night supporting powerhouse punk duo The Pill on their sold-out eight date run. Alongside their previous single, the Britpop-inspired belter ‘Paycheck’, Tough Cookie announced their own UK headline tour; culminating in their biggest headline show to date at Hackney’s OSLO on the 9th December, the 6-date tour takes in Bristol’s iconic Louisiana and Manchester’s YES Basement along the way.
Out now via Gravity Records [Divorce, Fiona-Lee], the eight songs on The Countryside Is Good For You mixtape were forged in their East London basement, and are the result of years of evolution and change for the band. This mixtape also marks Tough Cookie’s first ever physical release, with the eight tracks available on 12” vinyl which fans can order here. Previous singles ‘Emory’, ‘Happiness’ and ‘Sandcastles 2008’ laid the blueprint for the Tough Cookie sound, where emotional candour meets alt rock grit – delicate and restrained one minute, and intensely heavy and distorted the next. They say, “The Countryside Is Good For You is an honest account of navigating moments of vulnerability, disconnection, and escapism; a journey of self discovery amid chaos, we start as we mean to go on, from a place of sincerity”.
‘The Countryside Is Good For You’ Headline Tour Dates:
28th November – Glasgow, The Garage Attic Bar
30th November – Leeds, Oporto
2nd December – Manchester, YES Basement
3rd December – Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
4th December – Bristol, Louisiana
9th December – London, Oslo
‘The Countryside Is Good For You’ Mixtape tracklist:
Happiness
Sandcastles 2008
The Countryside is Good For You
Paycheck
Dick Of The Year
A Fragile Beauty
Emory
Disappear