Bianca and Sierra Casady otherwise know as Coco Rosie released their new album Heartache City last month on their own label this time following records for City Slang, Sub Pop and Touch & Go.
"This is our sixth record! Like many of our past records, we wrote and gathered much of the material at our farm studio in the south of France with minimal equipment, vintage toys and antique instruments. Going back to a '4-track' style approach, we limited ourselves to essential, acoustic accompaniment, played by us, and select percussion, toys from our old suit cases dating back to the "La Maison" days. Unlike our more psychedelic/electronic explorations of the last two records, our latest songs have a dusty southern feel with old-timey poetry. We ended up in Argentina where we finished the recordings and mixed the record with engineer Nicolas Kalwillwith whom we've worked on two previous records. The spirit of Buenos Aires added to our already teen-romance-nostalgic-mood where we spontaneously shot a music video casting over 30 local girls."
That's how the band summed up this very sweet record that is quite joyfully unique and unlike anything else you are likely to hear this year. Perhaps a Joanna Newsome record is the closest you would get.
The record seems alive with sound from fragile beauty to progressive and challenging rhythms. To this end the record rewards with each listen.
Just two years on from ‘Tales of A Grass Widow’, Bianca and Sierra are a composing tour-de-force always coming up with original ideas. However fragile the lyrics sound there is always a darkness to to lyrics that keep the listener entranced.
“Warming the hearts of tragic hoodlum spirits
Brighten the eyes of petty thieves who crawl at night
Who feign to use a knife
Jingle jangle the cosmo's are on fire
The blazing lines of the criminal choir”
So it’s that late night comfortable chair, glass of malt type record. A fine rare thing indeed.
Pete
10/11
