{"title":"Chris Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Cohen is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1975, he comes from a musical background with his father being former music business executive Kip Cohen and his mother being former Broadway actress Lynn Cohen (known professionally as Lynn Carlisle).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith his diverse talents, Chris Cohen has carved out a unique place in the music industry. Drawing inspiration from various genres including folk, indie rock, and psychedelic pop, he creates captivating melodies that are both introspective and infectious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis music has been compared to artists such as Jessica Pratt, White Fence, Here We Go Magic, Ducktails, Ultimate Painting, Foxygen and many more. With each release, Chris Cohen continues to push boundaries and captivate audiences with his distinct sound.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chris-cohen","title":"Chris Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003eChris Cohen’s songs initially sound easy. They’re tiny jewels that unfurl at a leisurely pace, but dig a little deeper and you’ll reach a melancholy core. His previous two albums — 2012’s \u003ci\u003eOvergrown Path\u003c\/i\u003e, and 2016’s \u003ci\u003eAs If Apart\u003c\/i\u003e — were built from lush, blurry tracks that embedded themselves in your subconscious, like they’d always been there. Chris Cohen, his third solo album, was written and recorded in his Lincoln Heights studio and at Tropico Beauties in Glendale, California over the course of the last two years. With the help of Katy Davidson (Dear Nora), Luke Csehak (Happy Jawbone Family Band), Zach Phillips, and saxophonist Kasey Knudsen, among others, it is his most straightforward album yet, but it is also the conclusion of an unofficial cycle that began with \u003ci\u003eOvergrown Path\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My parents got divorced while I was making this record,” he says. “They were married for 53 years and my father spent most of his life in the closet, hiding both his sexual identity and various drug addictions. For me it was like being relieved of a great burden, like my life could finally begin.” It is this sense of truth and freedom that is woven into the very fabric of the record even as it grapples with complicated emotions. A core truth of the record is what at first seems like a simple idea: “I hoped that by writing about what was closest to me at the time, I might share something of myself and where I came from,” Cohen says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough the album is undeniably part of the framework that made up his previous two records — Chris Cohen is also a thoughtful, accomplished meditation on life and family, backed by dusky instrumentation influenced by the late evening beauty of Pat Metheny’s Falcon and the Snowman soundtrack, and Thomas Dolby’s Golden Age of Wireless . It’s beautiful, but it’s also unflinching in its depiction of emotional turmoil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Coke Bottle Colour Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Captured Tracks","offers":[{"title":"LP.","offer_id":50412245713227,"sku":"1056582","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50412244304203,"sku":"1056581","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50412244992331,"sku":"1056580","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e7e054f4-438f-497c-a04e-cf2997cf48ed_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726666253"},{"product_id":"as-if-apart","title":"As If Apart","description":"\u003cp\u003e'As If Apart', the long-awaited sequel to Chris Cohen's 2012 soft psych garden of unearthly alter-pop earworms and studio-sonic delights 'Overgrown Path', follows on its predecessor with another bittersweet ensemble of dreamy, complex songs. Pushing the idiosyncrasies of Cohen's melodic and rhythmic approach into even more fractured, shifting spaces, 'As if Apart' unsettles lazy pop conventions, upending jaded heads and hearts with an expansive, moody psychedelia. Where 'Overgrown Path' plunged within, 'As if Apart' voyages out. And up. Sometimes as a leader, sometimes as a sideman and collaborator; sometimes as an invisible musician but you've heard him: the chest-high bass drum thump, the tightly paired flight of guitars in odd harmony, the disorienting shift in time and texture that resolves itself into song. Chris Cohen has plied the inside and outside folds of pop musical possibility since at least 1978, when he first set infant drumstick to skin at the tender age of three, initiating decades of sonic experimentation across multiple bands and nearly a dozen recordings. Cohen's songwriting isn't so much disjunctive as subjunctive, asking \"what if,\" playing against the expected and building suspense, breaking like waves or the patterns at the edges of things. Chris makes music with the patience of a gardener: he went out and collected a backyard's worth of thorny succulents, took them home and cultivated them like so. They are modular plants - cut one little piece, stick it in the ground, give it time. Come back and find it branching, breaking and replanting itself into tangle and form. You notice yourself changed too. To say that this is how pop music should have turned out would be nostalgic - a misapprehension of time, pop, history and our place within those structures - what we could say is that this is how pop music has turned out alongside itself - how it has become beside itself - as if apart.LP - With Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Captured Tracks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50412248858955,"sku":"399509","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50412249973067,"sku":"399510","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4bc2c137-841b-4194-ae21-2e336b01cc12_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726666293"},{"product_id":"paint-a-room-2","title":"Paint A Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eChris Cohen was always a quiet kid. In fact, this introversion was one reason he began playing music as a toddler—to communicate without speaking, to identify with others without the direct representation of words. It has worked, too, with Cohen’s terrific stint in the mighty Deerhoof and his own captivating art-rock act The Curtains, preceding production and session work for the likes of Weyes Blood, Kurt Vile, Le Ren, and Marina Allen. Somewhere along that long way, Cohen started writing lyrics. He found that, though it didn’t come naturally, the process offered a new sense of self-discovery and reckoning, a way to see himself and the world from unexpected angles. His three twilit albums of casually complicated pop during the last decade radiated these epiphanies: handling family strife, navigating advancing age, and understanding social woes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Cohen has never had as much to sing so directly as he does on \u003ci\u003ePaint A Room\u003c\/i\u003e, his first album in five years and his debut for Hardly Art. If Cohen’s meanings have previously lurked inside the tessellated musical layers he built alone, they are newly clear and resonant here, animated and underscored for the first time by a band playing in real time. There is the endless miasma of state violence on the subversively melodious opener “Damage,” the existential exhaustion of modernity on the horn-traced jangle “Laughing”: this is Cohen communicating with friends not only through his deep understanding of groove, harmony, and hook but also with his listeners through songs that croon of our uneasy little era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e On \u003ci\u003ePaint A Room\u003c\/i\u003e, Cohen’s music feels like a warm spring breeze, easy to love and gentle to feel. But it’s often carrying something heavy, as if blowing in from some unseen storm cloud. \u003ci\u003ePaint A Room\u003c\/i\u003e both reckons with reality and conjures an alternate one, where nighttime walks and a neighbor’s wind chimes offer endless escapes for the imagination, space for the mind to roam. Sublime and sun-lit, these 10 songs consider dreamy new ways out of old predicaments, clearly stating the problem and dancing and singing their way somewhere new. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaint A Room\u003c\/i\u003e features Jeff Parker contributing the fluttering horn arrangement on “Damage,” and Parker collaborator Josh Johnson (who produced Meshell Ndegeocello’s Grammy-Award-winning album The Omnichord Real Book) supplying flute, sax, and clarinet arrangements throughout the record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardly Art","offers":[{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50442959946059,"sku":"2198048","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50442959552843,"sku":"2198047","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_-_2024-05-01T160136.846_1a679334_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727006602"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_65969611_thumbnail_4096_be38fbc6-c92c-4309-9bf4-978e6618c785.jpg?v=1726027213","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/chris-cohen.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}