Evil Cowards is an American
synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s ...
band created by
Tyler Spencer
Tyler Spencer (born January 22, 1972), also known as Dick Valentine, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author. He is best known as the lead vocalist, main lyricist, and co-founder of the rock band Electric Six.
Career
Spencer fou ...
of
Electric Six
Electric Six is a six-piece American rock band formed in 1996 in Detroit, Michigan. Their music was described by AllMusic as a combination of garage, disco, punk rock, new wave, and metal. The band achieved recognition in 2003 with the sin ...
, and Will Bates of
Fall On Your Sword.
History
Formation and ''Covered in Gas'' (2009)
Evil Cowards was formed by Tyler Spencer (also known as Dick Valentine), lead singer of the rock band Electric Six, and William (Will) Bates, music composer and founder of the music production company Fall On Your Sword.
Of Evil Cowards compared with Electric Six, Spencer stated that:
vil Cowardsis much more synth-pop in nature, in Electric Six we feature the electronic guitar.
The band released their debut album, ''
Covered in Gas,'' with
Metropolis Records
Metropolis Records is a record label founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1993 by the late Dave Heckman. The label's all-electronic format closely tracked with European contemporaries, such as Off Beat, and, since 1995, has been instrumenta ...
in May 2009, shortly before the release of the sixth Electric Six album,
''KILL''.
''Moving Through Security'' (2010-2012)
A February 2012 news item on The Electric Six website, attributed to Dick Valentine, suggested that 2012 would see the release of the Evil Cowards' second album. The album, entitled ''Moving Through Security'', was released in October that year. Unlike their debut, released by Metropolis Records, the band's second album was self-released without a record label.
Also in October 2012, the band released a music video for the song ''Bedford Avenue Wine Distributors'', taken from the new album.
Discography
* ''
Covered in Gas'' (2009)
* ''
Moving Through Security'' (2012)
References
External links
*
Evil Cowards Artist Page on Metropolis Records
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Musical groups established in 2009
Rock music groups from New York (state)
Metropolis Records artists