: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Chris Cohen : Album.......: Chris Cohen : : Label.......: Captured Tracks .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: CT-295 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2019-04-02 Str.date....: 2019-03-29 Quality.....: 256kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://capturedtracks.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Song They Play 3:40 2. Edit Out 3:28 3. Green Eyes 3:19 4. Sweet William 2:45 5. House Carpenter 6:06 6. Twice In A Lifetime 4:05 7. What Can I Do? 2:23 8. The Link 2:52 9. Heavy Weather Sailing 2:25 10. No Time To Say Goodbye 3:52 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 34:55 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 67.20 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Chris CohenÆs songs initially sound easy. TheyÆre each tiny :, : jewels that unfurl at a leisurely pace, but dig a little deeper : :' and youÆll reach a melancholy core. His previous two albums ù ': ,: 2012Æs Overgrown Path, and 2016Æs As If Apart ù were built from :, : lush, blurry tracks that embedded themselves in your : :' subconscious, like theyÆd 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. Cohen would :, : sing melodies into his phone, fleshing them out on piano, then : :' constructing songs around the melodies, and later, adding ': ,: lyrics and other instrumentation 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 Overgrown : :' Path. ': ,: :, : ôMy parents got divorced while I was making this record,ö he : :' says. ôThey 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.ö 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. : :' Indeed, a core truth of the record is what at first seems like ': ,: a simple idea: ôI hoped that by writing about what was closest :, : to me at the time, I might share something of myself and where I : :' came from,ö Cohen says. ': ,: :, : Though the album is undeniably part of the framework that made : :' up his previous two records ù Chris Cohen is also a thoughtful, ': ,: accomplished meditation on life and family, backed by dusky :, : instrumentation influenced by the late evening beauty of Pat : :' MethenyÆs Falcon and the Snowman soundtrack, and Thomas DolbyÆs ': ,: Golden Age of Wireless. ItÆs beautiful, but itÆs also :, : unflinching in its depiction of emotional turmoil. : :' ': ,: On ôEdit Out,ö written in the wake of his parentsÆ divorce, :, : Cohen examines his relationship with his father through : :' devastatingly straightforward lyrics: ôWe were loved from afar ': ,: / Everyone kept in the dark.ö Though itÆs a gorgeous song, the :, : emotional weight is immense. A line like ôpeople want a lotö : :' carries a substantial amount of power, even if the initial ': ,: intention of the lyric is not immediately clear. :, : : :' But Chris Cohen is not a confessional record in the traditional ': ,: sense. Instead of picking at open wounds, the album looks :, : forward by embracing the past. CohenÆs father worked in the : :' music industry, which exposed him as a child to not just the ': ,: practical realities of a career in music ù from a young age he :, : saw plenty of recording studios and heard stories about : :' musicians from his parents ù but the more creative as well. ôI ': ,: had the sense that music was important and was something I could :, : do,ö he says. : :' ': ,: On album opener, ôSong They Play,ö Cohen revisits his childhood, :, : and his attempts to get his fatherÆs attention. ôI was mostly : :' shielded from what was going on,ö he says. ôbut had occasional ': ,: glimpses into my parentsÆ complex world. When I sing these :, : songs, I think itÆs my way of communicating what I am unable to : :' communicate in real life.ö ': ,: :, : None of these songs are abrasive or even aggressive. The soft : :' drum fills on ôSong They Playö comfort, and the guitar ': ,: virtually glitters. Chris Cohen is a beautiful album about pain :, : and loss but itÆs also about accepting loss. Of the song ôGreen : :' Eyes,ö Cohen says ô[ItÆs about] the men in my family and how ': ,: they passed their worldview along to each other from great :, : emotional distances. My father and grandfather were full of : :' secrets and longing, which were communicated through everyday ': ,: actions like driving a car or cooking a meal. We all wanted :, : closeness, but never found it in each other.ö This is a : :' statement about a specific song, but it is also a statement ': ,: about the album as a whole: Chris Cohen is not so much :, : autobiographical as it is multi-generational. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 9 \/