Cougar return with the second single from their forthcoming album 'Patriot' and it's a stormer! 'Stay Famous' plays with the old loud/quiet rock dynamic, mixing in bleeding-fingers riffing, melodic beauty and plangent counterpoint. The whole is exhilarating, proving once again that you don't need a vocalist to make affecting, heartfelt rock music. The single is continued by "Foil Épée Sabre," which despite a title evocative of fencing, comes on a little more down-home than you might expect, banjo lines twisting round and over one another in a chord sequence which shows once again Cougar's unique grasp of the melancholy. The package is rounded out by a superb remix of "Stay Famous" by none other than Mike Ladd. The sometime Infesticon and full-time musical genius is an old associate of David Henzie-Skogen from his time as drummer for the Youngblood Brass Band. Here he breaks "Stay Famous" down into the most brutal garage rock, an exhilarating and raw ending to a great record. Cougar's second album, the forthcoming 'Patriot' is released 31st August on Counter.