CocoRosie | The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
Posted by PJ in The Yellow Stereo, Upcoming
CocoRosie are a duo who’s music i’ve really come to appreciate over the past couple of years. If you were to introduce me to their music before, let’s say while i was still crazy about Britpop, I probably wouldn’t give this a lot of attention. Thankfully, here in the present my tastes have broaden nicely and I can really listen and enjoy music as unique as what the sisters Sierra and Bianca have been releasing over the years. I’m won’t even begin to describe their sound though, but if you want to go with a general term than let’s just say they are highly experimental. Not experimental in an off-putting sense of the word but if you consider layers upon layers of sounds being that, well you’re more than welcome to give it that description. Their wiki page describes it as “freak folk” but i see it more pop than anything.
I just read over that paragraph, and I noticed I didn’t get anything useful across. That’s pretty terrible, but it shows how difficult it is to categorize them as they don’t really fit into any kind of genre. Anyways, getting to the real point of this is that the duo are set to release a brand new album entitled The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, which sounds like a ridiculous title but that’s as far as i’ll go with that. Maybe the title is a taste of the possible weirdness that is in store for us come April 10th, or we could also just read this press release too and try to decipher some of this madness:
This album is a departure from the obscured blur of stained glass reve to a more self-exploitive memoir. Parts are dreamy and parts are savage, but, as with an opera where death represents a secret heaven, the whole record feels like a black diamond in the snow. From her humble beginnings in the South of France, the saga sailed the Seven Seas all the way to that icy crack in the Earth’s crust just outside of Reykjavik. Upon her return to her Parisian homeland, she shared a mystical rendezvous with beautiful sailors Pierre et Gilles, the album cover being the consequence of that affair. If Jean Genet was the muse that inspired Noah’s Ark, the spirit guide for this album was Wee Willie Winkie. A pre-pubescent idol who never changes out of his bedtime clothes, Wee Willie Winkie runs through town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown, knocking on the window, crying through the lock “Are the children all in bed? It’s past eight o’clock.” He might have been an O.R.W. (original rainbowarrior).
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Thank you for posting these! I think i’ve just a got a new favorite band.
i’m really looking forward to this album. i absolutely loved the last one. thanks pj!