Name: Paint A Room
Brand: Chris Cohen

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2024-07-12

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Chris Cohen

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Hardly Art

Chris Cohen is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1975, he comes from a musical background with his father being former music business executive Kip Cohen and his mother being former Broadway actress Lynn Cohen (known professionally as Lynn Carlisle).

With his diverse talents, Chris Cohen has carved out a unique place in the music industry. Drawing inspiration from various genres including folk, indie rock, and psychedelic pop, he creates captivating melodies that are both introspective and infectious.

His music has been compared to artists such as Jessica Pratt, White Fence, Here We Go Magic, Ducktails, Ultimate Painting, Foxygen and many more. With each release, Chris Cohen continues to push boundaries and captivate audiences with his distinct sound.

Hardly Art is an independent record label based in Seattle, WA. Founded in early 2007 by Sub Pop Records, Hardly Art is run by three full-time employees and is distributed by the Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) and Sub Pop.

With a focus on discovering and promoting emerging artists, Hardly Art has established itself as a prominent player in the music industry. The label prides itself on its commitment to supporting artists who push boundaries and defy genres.

From indie rock to punk, pop to experimental sounds, Hardly Art's diverse roster showcases the best of underground talent. With a catalog that spans across various genres, there's something for every music lover on this innovative label.

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.

But Cohen has never had as much to sing so directly as he does on&nbsp;Paint A Room, his first album in five years and his debut for Hardly Art. 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. There is the endless miasma of state violence on the subversively melodious opener “Damage,” the existential exhaustion of modernity on the horn-traced jangle “Laughing”: this is Cohen communicating with friends not only through his deep understanding of groove, harmony, and hook but also with his listeners through songs that croon of our uneasy little era.

On&nbsp;Paint A Room, Cohen’s music feels like a warm spring breeze, easy to love and gentle to feel. But it’s often carrying something heavy, as if blowing in from some unseen storm cloud.&nbsp;Paint A Room&nbsp;both reckons with reality and conjures an alternate one, where nighttime walks and a neighbor’s wind chimes offer endless escapes for the imagination, space for the mind to roam. Sublime and sun-lit, these 10 songs consider dreamy new ways out of old predicaments, clearly stating the problem and dancing and singing their way somewhere new.&nbsp;

Paint A Room&nbsp;features Jeff Parker contributing the fluttering horn arrangement on “Damage,” and Parker collaborator Josh Johnson (who produced Meshell Ndegeocello’s Grammy-Award-winning album&nbsp;The Omnichord Real Book) supplying flute, sax, and clarinet arrangements throughout the record.

Paint A Room

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Discover Paint A Room by Chris Cohen on Hardly Art. Dive into his introspective lyrics and captivating art-rock sound. Vinyl records available.