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- Summary: Formally known as The Cotton Jones Basket Ride, the band releases its second full-length album on the Suicide Squeeze Records label.
- Record Label: Suicide Squeeze
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 7
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Mixed: 3 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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FilterParanoid Cocoon is a Sunday morning treat. [Holiday 2008, p.105]
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Paranoid Cocoon establishes its sound early, so anybody initially put off by all of the cloudy skies and soft, neo-psychedelic mountain melancholy will inevitably come away disappointed, but fans of James Yorkston, Richard Hawley, M. Ward, and mild hangovers will eat this up, and rightly so.
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Overall, Paranoid Cocoon's bedroom chamber pop spins with variety and subtle dissonances aplenty.
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Under The RadarIt's a relaxed and confident debut packed with enough reverb, organs, and dreamy sensuality to keep you warm on any windy winter evening. [Year End 2008, p.76]
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On their debut disc, Nau and McGraw craft jazzy folk peppered with pianos, strings and organs, and drive them with down-home vocal harmonies.
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It also probably means that we'll be getting something new from Nau the next time around. Switching between musical characters is obviously Nau's default setting, and for all of its pleasantness, Paranoid Cocoon, in the context of his career thus far, feels like transition music over a costume change.
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Each song feels like it belongs as filler between other more upbeat tracks. Isolated, some of the tracks can be enjoyable, but as an album, Paranoid Cocoon disappoints.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jun 15, 2014
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