The Cowls

The Cowls began in 2018 as an indie rock collective before quickly evolving into a solo electronic project fronted by Damion Jurrens, a veteran of the NYC indie scene.



Now based in California’s East Bay, The Cowls’ most recent incarnation set out to reconcile Damion’s guitar-heavy indie rock past with his lifelong love of synthesizers and electronic music.



Combining notes of New Order, Depeche Mode, and Gary Numan with occasional flares of The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, and The Stone Roses, The Cowls’ restless aesthetic results in giddy blasts of hook-heavy indie-synth-wave-pop that nods to its influences while creating an inventive and determinedly modern sound of its own.



The intervening years have seen Damion release three albums via AnalogueTrash: Certain Calculations, Should It Feel Like This?, and Blank Romantic.



More recently, he has collaborated with labelmate Richard Skinner of STOCKSNSKINS on the Puvirnituq project, performed live in Europe and North America, and built up a vast cache of as-yet-unreleased material and sonic experimentation.



Always creative and forever seeking to challenge his own musical boundaries and expectations, each record by The Cowls sees Damion bring different elements of his musical influences to the fore. The core of his sound is always a refreshing fusion of electronica and the electric guitar, however.

Damion returns to the fray this September with Buying Drugs from Ghosts – an EP structurally influenced by Cocteau Twins while retaining the gritty essence and seat-of-your-pants attitude that has won The Cowls fans all over the world.