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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.....: 745 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://capturedtracks.com
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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
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\ / ________ Runtime 34:55
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,: 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. :
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