Cokefloat! is the debut album by Scottish band Paws. It was released on 8 October 2012 on FatCat Records.[1]
In 2010 and 2011, Paws released four EPs on cassette label Cath Records, which they owned and ran from the house they shared.[2] Some songs from those EPs were re-recorded for Cokefloat!. Paws signed to FatCat in 2012 and released the EP Misled Youth in May of that year.[3]
Several tracks on Cokefloat! have lyrics about songwriter Phillip Jon Taylor's mother, who died of cancer when he was 21.[1][4]
The single "Sore Tummy" was a playable track in the video game Rocksmith 2014.[5]
On Metacritic the album holds a score of 66/100, based on 9 reviews, indicating a "generally favorable" reception.[7] Ian Cohen of Pitchfork described "Catherine 1956" and "Bloodline" as "frankly astonishing."[10]
Several reviewers noted a strong influence of 90s grunge on the album. Writing for BBC Music, Mike Haydock described the album as "tuneful and energetic but a little unoriginal" and drew comparisons to Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and The Lemonheads, as well as to contemporaries like Yuck.[1] Pitchfork described the album as "alternately thrilling and mildly embarrassing for being the sum of its 90s influences."[10] Jason Lymangrover of AllMusic wrote that the album "references '90s guitar rockers like Dinosaur Jr. and Teenage Fanclub, and manages to channel the fun aspects of noisy slacker pop."[8]
The album was shortlisted for the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year Award, losing to RM Hubbert's Thirteen Lost & Found.[12][13]
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