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Westside Cowboy announce new EP and European tour.
The Manchester music scene, a perennial wellspring of gritty, guitar-driven innovation, is once again sending one of its most promising exports across the channel as Westside Cowboy announces both a new EP, 'So Much Country ‘Till We Get There,' and a supporting slot on Geese’s European tour this January. This news arrives hot on the heels of their coronation as one of 2025’s Best New Artists, a designation that feels less like a prediction and more like an inevitability for anyone who has tracked their ascent from basement shows to festival tents.Their sound, a raw yet melodic strain of indie rock that feels both timeless and urgently contemporary, draws a direct lineage from the city’s rich history—think The Smiths’ poetic melancholy meeting the unkempt energy of The Fall, all filtered through a modern lens that refuses to be pigeonholed. The EP’s title alone, 'So Much Country ‘Till We Get There,' suggests a journey, a thematic throughline that perfectly complements the nomadic life of a touring band, while the lead single “Can’t See” offers a tantalizing preview: a track built on jangling, anxious guitars and a vocal delivery that swings from a weary croon to a cathartic shout, capturing the very essence of youthful desperation and ambition.For the band, this European run with Geese is a masterstroke, placing them before audiences already primed for thoughtful, dynamic rock, a chance to convert the buzz from blog headlines into a tangible, sweating, cheering continental fanbase. It’s a classic industry playbook executed with precision—strike while the iron is hot, use the critical momentum to fuel a physical presence, and let the music do the rest of the talking.The trajectory echoes that of fellow Manchester acts like The 1975 or Blossoms, who leveraged similar early praise into sustained international careers, proving that in an era of algorithmic discovery, the old-fashioned model of relentless touring and solid songwriting still holds immense power. As they prepare to trade the rain-soaked streets of Northern England for the venues of Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris, Westside Cowboy isn’t just delivering new music; they are staging a full-scale assault on the next level of their career, and for fans of guitar music with both heart and brains, it’s a campaign worth enlisting in.
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