About this artist
Everything changed for Mondo Cozmo in 2016. Born in Philadelphia and now based in East Los Angeles, he quit his two landscaping jobs, raised a big middle finger to all opposition, and began releasing songs that could’ve been cut under the influence of a “Champagne Supernova” inside a Seattle warehouse if this were the nineties…but it’s not. A disciple of Beck, Eddie Vedder, and Keith Richards, the song “Shine” introduced this tattooed underground pop outlier to audiences at large.
Not only did “Shine” break at multiple radio formats, but it racked up millions of streams with NPR hailing it among “Songs Public Radio Can’t Stop Playing in 2016.” He shot a heart-wrenching video for “Hold On To Me” with Anna Faris at a senior citizens home. He sold out the Troubadour in Los Angeles in under five days followed by sell outs in New York and Philadelphia. In fact, every headlining show he has played he has sold out. He lit up 10 shows at SXSW 2017—“Whatever asshole booked those like that was trying to kill me.” He joined Bastille on their arena tour—“It’s unbelievable. I wouldn’t even be able to afford tickets to this fucking thing if I wasn’t playing.” He made his late-night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! backed by a full choir, and he landed acclaim from Entertainment Weekly, Consequence of Sound, Clash, The Line Of Best Bit, and more.
He did it all by deconstructing everything you know and reconstructing it with a rawness the world hasn’t felt since Pearl Jam’s Vs. or Springsteen’s Born To Run. That’s Plastic Soul, his 2017 full-length debut.
Plastic Soul is Mondo Cozmo.
It’s painful. It’s pissed-off. It’s poetic. It’s passionate. It’s powerful.