Ex & Cora Tom

And The Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders

Label: Ex

Genre: Rock / Pop

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With Scrabbling At The Lock (1991), The Ex reached a decisive turning point. The album marked their first collaboration with New York–based cellist Tom Cora, whose fiercely inventive playing would become central to the band’s evolution and lead to nearly 100 concerts together. The partnership widened their musical scope, sharpening the balance between raw intensity and open-ended experimentation, and drawing in listeners from beyond punk’s usual borders.

The follow-up, And The Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders, built directly on that momentum. Its songs crackle with urgency while embracing a restless eclecticism that folds artful punk into improvised structures, folk-inflected ideas, and a spirit of real-time creation. The result is music that feels combustible and occasionally ominous, yet consistently adventurous and disarmingly infectious.

By this stage, The Ex had firmly established themselves as one of the most challenging and forward-thinking bands of their generation—fearless in crossing boundaries, committed to collective invention, and capable of turning risk into exhilaration.

Line-up: Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), Andy (guitar), Katrin (drums), Luc (bass), Tom Cora (cello).