Cop Shoot Cop are an American industrial/noise rock band from New York, active in the late 1980s and 1990s, noted for apocalyptic themes and a distinctive sound built around dual basses and samplers. Reviews on DeBaser highlight Consumer Revolt, White Noise and Ask Questions Later as key records.

Formed in New York in the late 1980s. Core members mentioned in reviews include Tod Ashley (Tod A.), Jack Natz, Jim Coleman and Phil Puleo (and references to Filler). Early recordings used two basses, heavy use of samplers and percussion; the band had no conventional drummer on some records. Tod Ashley later led the project Firewater. The group ceased activity in the mid-1990s.

Cop Shoot Cop are a New York industrial/noise group celebrated in DeBaser reviews for a sequence of influential early-90s albums. Reviews highlight dystopian, apocalyptic themes, inventive use of two basses and samplers, and a blend of melody and brutal noise. Key albums frequently praised are Consumer Revolt, White Noise and Ask Questions Later.

For:Fans of industrial and noise rock, post-no-wave/NYC underground listeners, and readers interested in dystopian/apocalyptic music.

 The city is completely empty.

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 Ashley, Puleo, and Filler thus produce a work of absolute musical excellence: a chimera of countless inputs, skillfully blended or intentionally contrasted, merging with Natz’s distorted but multifaceted voice and meticulously crafted but at the same time absolutely genuine and unpretentious lyrics (which cost me great effort not to quote...).

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 This combination of music charged with emotional tension and the weltanschauung copshootcoppiana probably finds its zenith in the sulfurous noise symphony (the seminal Foetus is just around the corner) appropriately titled "Empires collapse": the terminal nightmare of a society on the brink.

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