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Big thanks to everyone who’s bought the album, since its release – and for your continued curiosity in what we’re doing, via our myspace.
Here’s just a sample of what people are saying about Coyote:

Under The Radar

While this Welsh psych-pop collective’s 2006 debut hinted at greatness, the album often fell flat, a sloppy showcase for a band that had not completely molded its influences into a cohesive sound. The band’s sophomore album remedies this to glorious effect. Opening with the garage-rock barn-burning of “Feel So Fine,” Coyote is the sound of a band that has perfected its sense of style, while at the same time spreading its wings. “Be My Girl” is a slice of early-Beatles pop brilliance. “I Saw Her Today” features swirling quasi-Western organ, horns and strings. And “Information Overload” is the best song The Byrds never wrote, complete with mid-song Beach Boys-esque orchestral break. Coyote is a standout, albeit several decades removed.
7/10- By Frank Valish

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Msn.com/Choice Cuts

Choice Cuts: MSN & Consumer Guide

The legendary Robert Christgau picks El Goodo as part of Choice Cuts.

http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide/honorablemention/

HONORABLE MENTIONS

MGMT
“Oracular Spectacular” (Columbia)
Like Vampire Weekend, only as synth-dance rather than indie-rock, they convert a quality liberal education into thoughtful, anxious, faux-lite pop (”Kids,” “Time to Pretend”).

Frightened Rabbit
“The Midnight Organ Fight” (FatCat)
Earnest Glasgow brother band share their pain and add a song to the casual-sex canon (”Keep Yourself Warm,” “My Backwards Walk”).

Juaneco y Su Combo
“Juaneco y Su Combo” (Barbes)
Imagine the Ventures playing pan-cultural South American pop in the psychedelic ’70s — only really poky, say (”Ya Se a Muerto Mi Abuelo,” “El Hijo de la Runamula”).

Menya
“Puss Coital” (no label)
They [heart] Philly gurls’ cheesesteaks — eat them too (”Philly Gurls,” “Diana [Heart U]“).

El Goodo
“Coyote” (Grease)
Pitch-perfect, undiluted by irony, Welshmen re-create the folk-pop ’60s, and if the Hollies sometimes made better albums, the Association never did (”Aren’t You Grand,” “Don’t Worry Marie”).

Okkervil River
“The Stand Ins” (Jagjaguwar)
Will Sheff should stop worrying about what a star he is, or isn’t, or doesn’t want to be, or … — normal obscurity is within his means, I swear it (”Lost Coastlines,” “On Tour With Zykos”).

Kathy Mattea
“Coal” (Captain Potato)
Living songs about the power of blackness and the illusory allure of green (”The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore,” “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive”).

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
“Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!” (Anti-)
Gosh — at 50, he’s almost Dylanesque for blessed moments, plus he utters the welcome words “Bukowski was a jerk” (”We Call Upon the Author,” “More News From Nowhere”).

Jay Reatard
“Singles 06-07″ (In the Red)
Several of the best songs here aren’t even the best songs on “Blood Visions,” and then there’s the momentum thing (”Let It All Go,” “Hammer I Miss You”).

Kaiser Chiefs
“Off With Their Heads” (Universal/Motown)
Funnier and simpler, they earn their snark (”Never Miss a Beat,” “Addicted to Drugs”).

Brian Wilson
“That Lucky Old Sun” (Capitol)
Born-again optimist’s L.A. even has Mexicans in it (”Southern California,” “Morning Beat”).

The So So Glos
“The So So Glos” (Green Owl)
Like toddlers, born punks believe falling down is how you get where you’re going (”We Got the Days,” “99 Degrees”).

D.O.A.
“Northern Avenger” (Sudden Death)
“Time has marched along, punks have changed, some are gone/Some have vision and some are gray, some have just been born” (”Golden State,” “Last Chance”).

Franz Ferdinand
“Tonight” (Domino)
They’ve got a question for us — where will we be in five minutes’ time? (”What She Came For,” “Live Alone”).

H Is for Hellgate
“Come for the Peaks, Stay for the Valleys” (Scissor City Sound)
Woman tells her bitter truths, which her guitar elaborates, or is it challenges? (”Pretty, Pretty Princess,” “Blood”).

Times New Viking
“Rip It Off” (Matador)
Moderately smart lo-fi punk lyrics await your magnifying glass, moderately cute lo-fi punk tunes await your shovel (”Faces on Fire,” “[My Head]“).

Tom Breiding
“The Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields” (AmeriSon)
Entering new songs in the musical-historical record — without, unfortunately, the bitter jokes I bet they tell there to this day (”Union Miner,” “The Longest Darkest Day”).

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Oh Blog it!: Jersey Beat

http://www.jerseybeat.com/philrainone.html

Coyote Review

El Goodo – Coyote
(myspace.com/elgoodomusic)
Like vintage Fleshtones (one of their most obvious influences- maximum garage rock), early Stones (jagged blues rock), The Cyrkle (their warm-breeze harmonies), The Monkees (rejuvenating and ecstatic vocals), and those wonderfully psychedelic, Neanderthal garage rock bands of yesteryear, El Goodo (cool name, copped from a Big Star song) throw a party on “Coyote” like it’s 1969 again! The opening cut “Feel So Fine” is drenched in feedback, with soaring/searing garage powerpunkpop that demands your attention. As the album progresses, El Goodo moves into the raucous stylistic space that other bands of the late 60’s were abandoning. “Aren’t You Glad,” and “Don’t Worry Marie” really deliver those goods. They focus on a variety of hard-rocking/good-humored impulses, and melt them into a solid, distinctive sound all their own. An exhilarating rollercoaster ride of Ramomesy, thick, heavy riffs, and insistent hooks. The purest distillation of rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve heard in a long time. There are no flashes of brilliance (just brilliance), carbon copies, or silly covers on “Coyote.” Every song is a hit psychedelic single in its own right! About 14 minutes after the last song, a harmonious, psychedelic heavenly chorus breaks out for nearly two minutes. Strange but wonderful! – Phil Rainone

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Oh Blog it!: Advance Copy

http://advancecopy.blogspot.com/2009/01/el-goodo-coyote-grease-release-january.html

El Goodo: Coyote (Grease)

release: January 12, 2009
style: garage psych-pop
similar: Zombies, Love, Abunai, Brian Jonestown
[rating: ****] One of the first releases of 2009 is one of the goodest. El Goodo already lucked out by getting tight with Super Furry Animals. The second album shows why SFA love them so much. “All is just a dream/I’ll show you what I mean” this Welsh band asserts in one of many swirling segments. The most stunning characteristic of El Goodo, of course, is its authentic 1960s sound that is at the top of its class. “Feel So Fine” and “Be My Girl” will cause many to double check the release date. Oh and wait for the hidden track. Left the CD going, scared the hell out of me. -Kenyon

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Oh Blog it!: The Agit Reader

http://www.agitreader.com/reviews/album_reviews-01.13.09.html#el_goodo-coyote

El Goodo
Coyote
Grease
There’s an old maxim that basically says your either a Beatles person or a Stones person. Welsh five-piece El Goodo prove themselves to be the exception to the rule, and their sophomore full-length, Coyote, benefits from being sympathetic to both camps. First noticed by fellow countrymen the Super Furry Animas, they share those heads’ penchant for washing their pop rock in a ’60s-style batik wash of reverb and hazy melodies. “Aren’t You Grand” recalls the Fab Four circa “Eight Days A Week” and “Pete” circa “Yellow Submarine,” and the Stones’ influence can be found on the stomping leadoff track “Feel So Fine ,” but throughout the album it’s just as easy to hear Byrds, Zombies and Velvets nestled in the grooves too. El Goodo manages to meld all this and avoid any noticeable anxiety of influence, instead benefiting beautifully from their luminaries. Coyote hearkens to this golden age without sounding like a golden oldie, though some of the band’s more whimsical moments (like using the refrain from Blue Suede’s “Hooked On a Feeling” in the middle of “Talking to the Birds”) make you wonder if they got into the brown acid. Yet, another old saying is that hindsight is 20/20, and for the most part the group has taken elements from the past to shape a sound capable of a promising future.
Stephen Slaybaugh

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Oh Blog it!: Children of the Coal

http://childrenofthecoal.blogspot.com/2009/01/el-goodo-coyote-2009.html

Sunday, January 18, 2009

El Goodo “Coyote” (2009)

When was the last time a psychedelic rock band from Wales knocked your socks off? Oh yeah, the Super Furry Animals. Well now SFA’s young-buck buddies El Goodo are here to prove you know of at least two Welsh bands who can kick ass, and in the hearts of some of our worlds, save rock-n-roll.

El Goodo’s sophomore release kicks off with ‘Feel So Fine’. A track that, while less vintage sounding than the rest of the record, is a ginormous stomper that mangles fuzzy guitars, bobs heads, and makes me pray for California sunshine. This track has more of a BMRC revival-sound, which works, because it hits you in the balls well enough to keep you listening.

Then enter a time machine into the rest of the record – a series of songs built around chilled-out harmonies, psychedelic sounds, and multi-instrumental guitar rock-n-roll that make you feel like “it’s all happening” right around you. The Kinks, Love, The Byrds, The Beach Boys – it’s right here. Sometimes subtly, sometimes not – but it’s all done really well.

In fact, you could file ‘Coyote’ under records you could probably trick your burnt-out rocker uncle into believing are a collection of lost b-sides from The Kinks & The Byrds. Or at the very least some obscure could’ve/should’ve Brit Invasionist that’s only known to the shelves of some psych-record snob. F’real – the songs, the lyrics, the production, the instrumentation, the feel – it’s all 1966 as fuck.

Hell, it even takes you back to the Yellow Submarine in “Pete”, a quirky psychedelic child’s fairy tail song that plays out the problems of a ‘crazy’ named Pete who’s thoughts float out of his brain and hang out with him under an umbrella.

My favorite from the bunch is ‘I Saw Her Today’, a track that, for lack of a better word(s), has a south-west cowboy movie feel? that gallops under an arrangement of organs and horns to a story about the virginal sighting of a girl who when she speaks ‘keeps those blues away’. Each song has a distinction from one another that keep the record moving well enough, but still harbors the same feel, so that you’re not left wondering if you’re listening to a compilation of different sixties style bands.

Right now I have to believe this will end up on my top ten of the year in music. The only bummer is that Coyote hits with nine songs coming in at under thirty minutes. The hunger pains are already beginning. Up the Welsh. Oh yeah, they don’t use last names either – meet Jason (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Pixy (vocals, bass, guitar, keyboard), Lewis (guitar), Elliot (drums, keyboard), and Matty (vocals, keyboard). Do yourself a favor and introduce your 2009 to Coyote.

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Oh Blog it!: Absolute Powerpop

CD of the Day, 1/15/09: El Goodo-Coyote

http://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2009/01/cd-of-day-11509-el-goodo-coyote.html

There’s a band from Pennsylvania out there named Unknown Mystery 60’s Group, and the conceit behind them is that their albums are really lost artifacts from private tapes of a band that played in the 1960s and didn’t go anywhere. It’s an interesting concept that comes to mind when listening to Coyote, the second album from the Welsh band El Goodo (itself named after the classic Big Star tune) – because if the name wasn’t on the disc label, you’d swear you were hearing a lost album from the 60s. (Of course with the trippy cover art, perhaps only the 2009 copyright would give it away.)

El Goodo borrow heavily from many bands of the era (Beach Boys, The Throgs, The Byrds), and right off the bat “Feel So Fine”, with its dirty-sounding fuzzbox guitars and reverb-drenched production, takes you right back in time with its Kinksian sound. “Be My Girl” would fit right on Nuggets, while “Aren’t You Grand” has a Spaghetti Western sound behind its Merseyside melodies. Elsewhere, the gentle “Don’t Worry Marie” could be mistaken for a lost Peter & Gordon track, “Informational Overload” recalls “Pleasant Valley Sunday”, the horns of “Talking to the Birds” are straight out of Love, and the jangly “I Can’t Make It” is positively Byrdsian. Also of note is “Pete”, which features vocals not unlike John Lennon’s “captain’s voice” in “Yellow Submarine” and a feel that recalls the mid-period Beatles’ goofier moments such as “You Know My Name”.

Coyote may be retro with a capital “R”, but it’s done so lovingly and painstakingly that it’s also quality with a capital “Q”.

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NPR: Second Stage

El Goodo: ‘Feel So Fine’

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99159118&ft=1&f=10001

By Rachel Kowal
“Feel So Fine”

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El Goodo in the wild

NPR.org, January 9, 2009 – It’s easy to tell the Welsh band El Goodo is obsessed with retro, psychedelic sonic landscapes, even without hearing a single note of the group’s music. A key track on El Goodo’s self-titled 2006 album is called “Stuck in the ’60s.” The quintet recreates that vintage sound, in part, by using instruments and recording equipment leftover from the ’60s, right down to the drum-kit and bass.

El Goodo’s latest release, Coyote, is immediately catchy. The pulsing drum beat and brawny guitar riffs in the opening bars of “Feel So Fine” kick off the album with an impressive gusto. The entire album echoes many of guitarist Lewie’s favorite artists, including The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, and The Doors. Backing vocals are taken from the Beach Boys school of rock, sung in carefully orchestrated group harmony.

Though the late ’60s may be the main source of inspiration for Coyote, more contemporary comparisons can be made: In “I Can’t Make It,” the playful melodies and spoken lyrics sound as if they could have come from the early Gay Parade era of Athens pop sensation, Of Montreal.

After Super Fury Animals took notice of El Goodo’s debut in 2005, the band has been building up their resume by touring in both the UK and stateside with acts like Beulah, Essex Green, and The Zombies. Coyote may be El Goodo’s second album, but with such richly layered and intricate melodies, this is no sophomore slump.

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Losing Today Review

Losing Today Review

http://www.losingtoday.com

a new South Coast imprint who to date have so far managed to secure the services of two artists to their infant roster those being El Goodo and Ruckus Roboticus. Describing themselves as ‘psychedelic / alternative / country’ – Welsh based five piece El Goodo indelibly sift through the remnants of long discarded and forgotten late 60’s hippy chic pop motifs, cross wired with an impeccable knack for a razor sharp hook and an immediately infectious foot stomping throb this brace of day-glo babes showcased here reveal a hugely crafted melodic mindset at work here who’ve poured through the various compilation catalogues such as Pebbles, Nuggets, Back from the Grave, Fuzz Flaykes and Shakes et al and distilled the best moments into their own lysergic tapestry. ’feel so fine’ – primed as the forthcoming single culled from their (we assume) debut full length ’Cayote’ is a shade wearing shimmering acid pop flashback that imagines a dirtier more gritted blues orientated Stone Roses going toe to toe with the psychedelic side of the Soup Dragons operations, some neat nods the Beatles ’I feel fine’ at the opening sequence, plenty of kaleidoscopic tonalities and blessed with the kind of wigged out waywardness that suggests a potential transistor rattler in the making. We aren’t certain whether it us or them but ’she turtle’ sounds well warped and I don’t mean that in a psych way but rather more as though someone’s left the studio tapes on top of a radiator left full on in the hot Californian sun. Whether the effects are deliberate or by accident still sounds like the Lemon Pipers and the Creation being thrown through some mind arranging washing machine on a hot setting. Well smart in short. That said we suggest you tune into their MS page at www.myspace.com/elgoodomusic and fall headlong in to their trip wired transcendental mantra ’I only dream’ – think Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane and Fairport Convention taking part in some wonderfully weird and wired Tibetan incantation