Creating a uniquely chaotic blend of 80’s club music and dark lyrical content, Death Cowboy built tracks “$5.99 Shrimp” and “Gun Show” using a vintage E-Mu Systems Emulator II+, a synthesizer from 1985 that utilizes 8” floppy disks to load individual sounds as their main instrument.

1950s Sioux City, a row of chrome-studded cars resting up for the next day’s trip while blonde boys and girls splash in the pool. Dad smokes a Winston and mom soaks up the sun in a leopard bikini, floating on a pink plastic flamingo in the deep end.

Fast-forward to 1970’s Sioux City, post-Vietnam and the pool is empty. A mustachioed man in a weathered Pontiac pays cash at check in. No one knows who he is.

Formed by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Chase Godwin and vocalist Hayley Dees, the unique dual-vocal approach the band takes sets them apart. When asked “Who sings lead?” Godwin says “We both do. Our songs were written for two vocals. Take one away and you’ve lost the magic.”