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Matt Maust of Cold War Kids has been pretty busy lately.  And today is the day it all comes together.  Maust has just finished work on a collaboration with good friend and extraordinary writer, Paul G. Maziar.  In What It Is: What It Is, Maust showcases his exceptional ability to capture and convey pieces of his world exactly as he sees and experiences them.  His work in What It Is: What It Is is, quite simply, prodigal.

It’s not poetry, it’s not prose...what is it: what is it? With What It Is: What It Is, Cold War Kids bassist and visual artist Maust and wordsmith Maziar have succeeded in making a book that’s less of a book and more of a guided tour through places they’ve been, both actual and abstract. With prose poems about taking deep breaths from our collective unconscious and making exhalations of cold smoke into thin air, and photo-collage images of cities, faces, skies and subways, the work suggests a fractured postmodern world viewed through nostalgic eyes and voiced by a warm, familiar tongue that still sounds unique.                         -Filter Magazine

What It Is: What It Is is available now directly from the publisher, Write Bloody.  It'll hit stores in the near future. 

On Wednesday, February 13 at 8:00 pm, you're all invited to the What It Is: What It Is Release Soirée at Sound Fix Lounge (Beford and N. 11th in Williamsburg).  It's FREE and will feature a reading by Paul G. Maziar as well as live performances by Chase Pagan and Matty Charles. 

Also, be sure to visit Cold War Kids @ RCRD LBL to download The Mulberry Street EP.