"Like his former bandleader Ariel Pink, Cohen bends the reality of his pop-culture references so that his music both begs for and resists carbon-dating. 'Overgrown Path' is pleasingly blurry on just where and when it's supposed to feel beamed from: Does it feel like a singer-songwriter record from the 1970s? Some lost psychedelic-era curiosity? Village Green-era Kinks? A forgotten 1980s jangle-rock band? At various points, I felt certain of each." - PITCHFORK
"This short collection compels repeat spins and sidesteps the captious critical faculty. The unhurried charm and ease disarm, their joys compulsively fruitful." - tiny mix tapes
"Chris Cohen’s Beach Boys by way of Talk Talk pop explorations most closely resemble the music of Cohen’s friend, contemporary, and bandmate Cass McCombs. Over dim psychedelic classic rock, smooth swagger, and jazzy instrumentation, Cohen’s 'Overgrown Path' croons with a subtle darkness." - Consequence of Sound
Sometimes as a leader, sometimes as a sideman and collaborator; sometimes as an invisible musician but you’ve heard him: the chest-high bass drum thump, the tightly paired flight of guitars in odd harmony, the disorienting shift in time and texture that resolves itself into song. Chris Cohen has plied the inside and outside folds of pop musical possibility since at least 1978, when he first set infant drumstick to skin at the tender age of three, initiating decades of sonic experimentation across multiple bands and nearly a dozen recordings.
Cohen’s songwriting isn’t so much disjunctive as subjunctive, asking “what if,” playing against the expected and building suspense, breaking like waves or the patterns at the edges of things. Chris makes music with the patience of a gardener: he went out and collected a backyard’s worth of thorny succulents, took them home and cultivated them like so. They are modular plants – cut one little piece, stick it in the ground, give it time. Come back and find it branching, breaking and replanting itself into tangle and form. You notice yourself changed too.
His new album, 'AS IF APART,' will be released by CAPTURED TRACKS on June 15th.
9:00 pm show, 21 & up only.
*NOTE: Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages are available from Richards' Goat Tavern at the show. Any outside beverages will result in a permanent ban from the theatre and the bar. Please be respectful, and thank you for supporting independent music & movies!