Daily Dose: Hey Cowboy!, “Cherry Jerry Citrus”

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Texas trio Hey Cowboy! shared the blissed-out track “Cherry Jerry Citrus” Friday, one of three songs on their newly released EP Sandy Cheeks.

Micah Vargas (bass and vocals), Sydney Harding-Sloan (synth and vocals) and Gaby Rodriguez (drums and vocals) paint a serene sonic landscape with gentle harmonies and soaring synths. The vocals—high, beautiful and clear—particularly stand out, elevating the song into the stratosphere. It feels like a tune made for catching rays on a sunny day, the aural equivalent of looking up at a near-cloudless sky and watching one thin cloud drift across the blue.

Despite their ten-gallon band name, there’s not a whiff of country or folk in the track, which lands more on the synth/dream-pop spectrum. The song is an ethereal follow-up to the band’s 2018 album The Soft Kind.

This EP is just a taste of what’s yet to come, Hey Cowboy! explain in a statement:

Sandy Cheeks is a sweet little EP we recorded in early February. Sandy is intended to be a preview to our next full-length album, which we are hoping to record and release within the year. The second track out of the three, “Cherry Jerry Citrus,” is a funky yet soft love song we wrote together about a year ago. It is meant to take the listener to a warm and fuzzy place all while dancing to a playful drumbeat, deep bass, and wide buoyant synth tones.

Listen to “Cherry Jerry Citrus” below and check out the entire Sandy Cheeks EP (named for a SpongeBob SquarePants character), recorded and mixed by Hen House Recording (Matt Gerhard) and mastered by Brad Bell, via Bandcamp here.