Paint a Room (Red Vinyl LP)

STAFF PICK: A beautiful continuation of the SoCal artist's work, mature, yet breezy music for fans of Mac Demarco, J.J Cale & Ariel Pink before he dropped off the deep end - Liam

The songs of Chris Cohen tend to hit like a perfectly timed breeze, evoking lost eras and as dreamy as a song is legally permitted to be. Newly signed to Hardly Art, it's been five long years since we last had a full-length from C.C., so thank goodness Paint A Room has just been announced. For the uninitiated, Cohen inhabits that kind of toe-tapping, vintage Californian songwriter sweet spot, and has played with the likes of Deerhoof, Weyes Blood, Danielson, and Cass McCombs. Trust us, you'll love him. New single Damage sets the tone for the record perfectly, with contributions from modern jazz masters Jeff Parker and Josh Johnson. Sublime. - Flying Out

Chris 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.

Tracklist:

1. Damage
2. Paint a Room
3. Sunever
4. Cobb Estate
5. Laughing
6. Wishing Well
7. Dog's Face
8. Night or Day
9. Physical Address
10. Randy's Chimes