Cool Patrol is the sixth studio album by American musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party, released on August 17, 2018.

It is also their first release with new producer and co-songwriter Jim Roach, and their first original album to feature TWRP as backup band.

[5][6][7] Cool Patrol marked the first time that original Ninja Sex Party songs were not written solely by Avidan and Wecht, as their new producer Jim Roach co-wrote six of the fifteen tracks of the album; "Orgy for One" was released as a single on March 6, 2018, making it the first released song of the band not solely written by the duo.

"[9] "Danny Don't You Know" is a power ballad; With Guitar also noted the presence of other genres through the album, such as new wave ("Cool Patrol"), synth-pop ("Orgy for One"), heavy metal ("Release the Kraken"), and madrigal ("Courtship of the Mermaid").

So he came to the office and he's just such a great kid, and we ended up taking pictures with him, but I happened to be wearing the same shirt as him, and it looks shockingly like an evolutionary timeline.

'"[11] Shortly after its release as a single on June 25, 2018, The band called "Danny Don't You Know" their "favorite-ever song", both musically and as a video, with Avidan stating on a latter interview that "everything seemed to come together right on that one".

"[11] The song was written by Avidan, Wecht and Roach, with Dallas Kruse acting as arranger of the string section.

[8][12][14] In November 2017, Avidan mentioned in an episode of Game Grumps that the band had finished most of the recording of Cool Patrol, and were aiming for a June 2018 release.

III; in parallel, they also recorded The TryForce, the third album of Starbomb, a band both Avidan and Wecht are also members of; both Under the Covers, Vol.

[1][19] The album became available for pre-orders on the same day, in two editions: standard, including a poster of the band, and Deluxe, signed by Avidan and Wecht.

"Heart Boner" was released as a single on August 2, 2018, along with a music video mixing live action and animation.

[25] The music video for "Courtship of the Mermaid" was released on June 24, 2019,[26] featuring cameos from Adam Kovic and Lawrence Sonntag of Funhaus.

From the raging metal guitars of 'Release the Kraken' and synth jam 'Orgy for One' to the bouncy new wave of the dance-along title track to the delicate madrigals and bone-fracturing sound effects of 'Courtship of the Mermaid', it’s the most polished and sonically diverse Ninja Sex Party album to date.

[23][28][29] Classic Rock called the song it a "power ballad life lesson triumph", while Pop Buzz considered it "very inspiring".

"[31] The popularity of the song led to Ninja Sex Party performing the song with TWRP on the late-night talk show Conan on September 17, 2018, in their live television debut; this censored version, which replaced the word "fuck" with "heck" and "hell", was released as a studio recording on September 21, under the name "Danny Don't You Know (Cool as Heck Version)".