Cobra Skulls talk about ‘Agitations’ on Fat Wreck Chords

July 13th, 2011

Grant Trimboli

Cobra Skulls have announced recently that they will be releasing their forthcoming Fat Wreck Chords debut album, Agitations, on September 27. Track-listing is expected soon but UTG has the cover art that can be seen by clicking here. The band’s frontman, Devin Peralta, told press what he feels about the recording process in Motor Studios and getting the album finished in time.

In the past I’ve always written songs sporadically and when it seemed as though a song wanted to write itself, but for our new album, Agitations, the process was a little different because time was a bit of a constraint. We finished a short tour in February and then I had less than a month to write an entire album. Solitude was definitely a necessity for me to write, even more so than usual, so I moved into a cheap, dirty, weekly motel in Reno (in a room I was told was used for an upcoming film based on the book “The Motel Life”) where I could concentrate, undisturbed. The result is 13 songs, most of which are amalgams of a score of ideas for songs that had amassed in my mind over the past couple years that I somehow managed to store in my ever-increasingly faulty memory. The album is called Agitations, because most of the songs are lyrically concerned with, well, things that agitate and bother me. Things like prisons that are operated like businesses in an ever increasingly xenophobic and paranoid post 9/11 society, U.S.