Cool to Be You

Cool to Be You
The album cover, illustrated by Chris Shary, depicts the band's Milo character drawn on graph paper.
Studio album by the Descendents
Released	March 23, 2004 (2004-03-23)
Recorded	February and April 2002
Studio	The Blasting Room, Fort Collins, Colorado; Planet of Sound, Wilmington, Delaware
Genre	Hardcore punk[1]
Length	36:26
Label	Fat Wreck Chords (FAT-672)
Producer	Bill Stevenson
Descendents chronology
'Merican (2004) Cool to Be You (2004) Hypercaffium Spazzinate (2016)
Singles from Everything Sucks
"Nothing with You" Released: February 10, 2004

Cool to Be You is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released on March 23, 2004, through Fat Wreck Chords. It was their first album of new studio material since 1996's Everything Sucks, which had been released through Epitaph Records. Following Everything Sucks, singer Milo Aukerman had returned to his biochemistry career while the other members—bassist Karl Alvarez, guitarist Stephen Egerton, and drummer Bill Stevenson—had continued with their other band All, releasing two more studio albums and a live album through Epitaph between 1998 and 2001 with singer Chad Price. Cool to Be You was recorded with Aukerman in 2002, but its release was delayed until 2004. The band switched from Epitaph to Fat Wreck Chords partly due to the enthusiasm of label head Fat Mike, who cited the Descendents as one of his favorite bands. Cool to Be You became the fourth Descendents release to chart, reaching #143 on the Billboard 200 and #6 amongst independent albums.