Coco Return w/ Sophomore Album “2” on First City Artists : 3/1
Following their self-titled debut from 2021 on First City Artists, the New York based trio consisting of members Maia Friedman (Dirty Projectors), Dan Molad (Lucius, Chimney) and Oliver Hill (Pavo Pavo, Dustrider), return with a wonderful album simply titled “2”. Layered in alabaster alchemy and Jackson Pollock textures from a forbidden sunset someplace far away and safe, Coco capture that special feeling of bare feet walking across cold hard wood floors so effortlessly. A spinning planet of morning mania and accurately planned afternoons with friends, the group demonstrates a level of musicianship and precious precision like never before. “2” sprawls across this denim landscape of matter-of-fact mantras and the liberation of warm morning water gracing ones sleepy skin. Retro rhythms of love, loss, gain and the elements of personal growth, Coco have really come into their own with this album. Its opening track, “Any Other Way” displays this ritual of emotion and catatonic celebration. Bending air through teething trees, Coco explore genres and pay their creative respects in a tasteful way. The bands first single “Mythological Man” explores the numbing narrative of an outcast exploring this unique isolation both earthbound and onward. A figure of honesty in a world further spinning out of control. “Gazing at the stars in a lonely paradise. How can no one realize he does everything right?”
“2” Is filled with so much misty eye experience and dormant pleasures patiently waiting to surface at any moment. A stubborn dresser drawer barely open revealing sacred geometry and contemporary ballads crumbled up and hidden under soft cotton garments from some far away place. The band ends the record with a wonderful number entitled “Do This Right”, the band’s first single from the album. A suburban exorcist existing in some old memory of who we once were as a desk lamp shivers, casting its honorable glow across the room. Images between each unique blink of the eye, a chiropractic adjustment for yard sale chakras, Coco are returning just in time for spring and we couldn’t be anymore thankful.
