Cough Cool

Philadelphia bedroom musician Dan Svizeny started working under the moniker Cough Cool in 2009, taking his name from a Misfits song but making music that owed more to the fuzzy textures of lo-fi recording and the dreamy sentiments of shoegaze than anything resembling punk. Implementing reverb-treated drum machines and an arsenal of scratchy guitar tones, Svizeny's first releases with Cough Cool came in the form of cassettes and downloads for various labels, including 2009's Buy Some Dust and Digestible Doom, 2010's Epic Dreams and split with Wild Safari, and eventually a short...