On US Tour With
Paul Weller
New Album Pleasure Boy
Out Now On Bella Union
"a stunningly emotive album fueled by a rough
breakup and the inevitable anxieties and melancholy that follow" --Blackbook
"The first lines of "Claremont"
suggest that Hannah Cohen has reached an
emotional breaking point: I'm
not gonna let you take this away from me / I've let you break almost everything. The track contains little besides
softly-strummed guitar and Cohen's quavery-but-resilient voice."—FADER
"Pleasure Boy—a refined and emotionally hard-hitting effort"
--VICE
Watch 'Baby' On
Nowness
Watch 'Fake It' On
Vogue
To celebrate her run of shows with the legendary Paul Weller (The Jam, Style Council), Hannah Cohen has released some exclusive
new music on Blackbook. Brooklyn duo Hidden
Fees, compromising of DJ Ivan Sunshine and guitarist Thomas Gluibizzi have remixed Cohen's
sultry track 'Lilacs'. Hannah herself notes that "This remix is especially
fascinating to me because it's not even close to what I was thinking of for the
tone of music to accompany the lyrics when I was writing the original."
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 by Bartlett, aka Doveman and 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, the
character of much of the album is someone who represents gluttony, 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."
Paul Weller tour dates below:
Tour Dates w/ Paul
Weller
June 12th -
New York, NY - Terminal 5
June 13th –
Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
June 14th -
Clifton Park (Albany), NY - Upstate Concert Hall
June 15th –
Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall
June 17th –
Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
June 18th –
Indianapolis, IN - Vogue
June 19th –
Pittsburgh, PA - Mr Smalls Theatre
June 20th -
Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Pleasure Boy Track
list:
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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