Review Fix Exclusive: Charming Liars Frontman Charlie Cosser Talks ‘We Won’t Give Up’ EP

Review Fix chats with The Charming Liars’ lead vocalist Charlie Cosser who discusses the band’s new EP, “We Won’t Give Up.’ If that wasn’t enough, Cosser also discusses the band’s creative process, goals for the future and cool hair.

Review Fix: What was the inspiration for the album?

Charlie Cosser: We were really inspired by the music we listened to growing up. We all liked bands with huge distorted guitars, big drums & great songs so we wanted to write an album that our younger selves would have loved

Review Fix: What song do you think provides listeners with the best example of what the band is capable of?

Cosser: We have a range of songs on the record – some heavier, some ballads and some straight up rockers. ‘The Desperation’ is a song we all love to play live and we have a really good time doing it

Review Fix: What was it like to work with John Fields?

Cosser: John was such a great dude and an absolute maniac in the studio (in the best possible way). The guy is such a genius and works so fast that it’s hard to keep up sometimes. He mixes as he records so by the end of the day a song is basically done!

Review Fix: Do any of the songs have unique stories behind them? Can you share one?

Cosser: ‘Break Away’ is the only song on the record that was written back in London, It’s taken many different forms and versions over the years but it really became a song about us as a band. The lyrics detail the struggle people often face when trying to break away from something and someone, thats how we felt leaving our friends, family and lives back in London to pursue our dreams in LA.

Review Fix: What’s the band’s creative process like?

Cosser: All our songs start off life acoustically. There is no set formula to writing the songs, sometimes it will start with a chord progression, a vocal melody sometimes even the name comes before the song has been written. The best songs are the ones that come quickly and naturally, we have found some of our favourite songs have come to us in a space of 2 hours

Review Fix: How do you want this album to affect people?

Cosser: We want people to enjoy it, the same way we enjoyed writing it and now love playing it.

Review Fix: What do you think is the band’s most marketable quality?

Cosser: We’re all pretty tall- and have awesome hair.

Review Fix: What are your hopes and goals for the rest of the year?

Cosser: We’re looking forward to playing some more shows here in America and a couple of other places around the world we’re excited to get to. Its gonna be great.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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