Chris Cohen - Paint A Room (Pre-Order Now | Pay Later)

Sub Pop have just announced for pre-order the debut album on Hardly Art of singer/songwriter Chris Cohen album entitled ‘Paint A Room’.

The Hardly Art debut by accomplished singer-songwriter and longtime Deerhoof member Chris Cohen is a gem of casually complicated pop. This is his first release since his outstanding trio of solo albums for NY label, Captured Tracks, released from 2012-2019, which remain records of abiding beauty. 

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. Enlisting help from longtime touring bandmates Davin Givhan (bass), Josh da Costa (drums), and Jay Israelson (keyboards), he built demos in a dusty garage of a suburban Altadena rental and tried something new—he took the songs on tour with that crew, yielding total control by letting them fill in or flourish their own parts as they saw fit.
 
Cohen called in a few friends to help, with multi-instrumentalist and composer Jeff Parker contributing the fluttering horn arrangement on “Damage” and Parker’s 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. 

Chris Cohen has also performed as a member of The Curtains, Natural Dreamers, and backing Cass McCombs, Danielson, Kurt Vile, and more. He produced Weyes Blood’s 2016 album Front Row Seat to Earth, and work by Gun Outfit and Le Ren.

Limited first pressing on red vinyl

Tracklist:
    Damage
    Paint a Room
    Sunever
    Cobb Estate
    Laughing
    Wishing Well
    Dog's Face
    Night or Day
    Physical Address
    Randy's Chimes