New Album Pleasure Boy Out March 31st On Bella Union
"Pleasure Boy—a refined and emotionally hard-hitting effort." --Vice
"feline visage and tear-soaked vocals" --Nowness
A deftly-applied piece of perfectly poised pop"—DIY
Bella Union are thrilled to announce the release of Pleasure Boy, the new album from HANNAH COHEN, which will be available 31st March.
Music often comes from a deep place, and in the case of Hannah Cohen's stunning and heartrending second album, it's very deep indeed. Mainly inspired by a painful break-up and the anxieties that loss can trigger, Pleasure Boy cushions its sadness in an exquisitely nuanced soundscape of aching melancholy and lush melody where Hannah's vocal conveys all the different shades of heartbreak. Following the album's completion, she's survived the calamity and found a new level of happiness, but to paraphrase the classic Sixties hit, there will always be something there to remind her with Pleasure Boy.
Pleasure Boy, like her debut Child Bride, was produced Bartlett, aka Doveman and The dynamics of Pleasure Boy was the result of Hannah and Bartlett, "bunkering down with my songs, experimenting with different tones and sounds, and layering them. My first record was so airy and roomy, I didn't have patience for that again, I wanted more movement, something more mysterious and witchier, so we created this sound wall together."
"I wanted the music to hurt, to have a visceral effect," Hannah says. Her voice sometimes sounds delirious or icy; other times she recalls the vulnerable, piercing beauty of Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays) and Karen Peris (The Innocence Mission). But Pleasure Boy's sound wouldn't exist without the vision that launched it. The album title arrived as the record took shape. "Pleasure Boy is a character of who it's about, someone who represents gluttony and decadence and richness," Hannah explains. She admits it was a tough record to make, given she was aiming to heal emotionally while feeling "devastated and hurt. But it wouldn't be the record it is if I hadn't done that."
Pleasure Boy Tracklist:
1. Keepsake
2. Lilacs
3. Watching You Fall
4. Fake It
5. Claremont
6. Queen Of Ice
7. Just Take The Rest
8. Baby
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