COLD BEAT - Mother LP ambient •WITNESS Howard Vokes and the

•WITNESS Howard Vokes and the tragic fate of THE MINER

Now with the new album Holocene Extinction at hand

the record company went bankrupt before they made it into the studio

they didn’t travel too far beyond an inner circle of New Zealand underground heads

COLD BEAT - Mother LP ambient •WITNESS Howard Vokes and theWound tight with an energy that ricochets from one song into the next, Mother was made while frontperson Hannah Lew (formerly of indie trio GRASS WIDOW) was pregnant and considering the chaotic conditions of the world she was bringing a new human into. If we consider Mother an artistic style guide through space and time, the framework Cold Beat provide is overcast by design but focused in execution; locked in drums and synths with choir like melodies