Cotton Jones - Paranoid Cocoon

· A new flexibility comes from a new name - these days Michael
Nau is making music very differently than he did in previous band
Page France. The original paranoia that haunted him has dropped
off. “This feels like a new leaf to me. I’ve learned to let the music
happen, rather than trying to invent something”, says Nau, “I'm still
sifting through some imaginary thesis, but it makes more sense
now”. The result of his personal revelation is ‘Paranoid Cocoon’,
the debut full-length for Suicide Squeeze.
· It’s an album full of quiet, wooden psychedelia that reflects
the duo’s casual pursuit of comfort and freedom under the
mountains of Cumberland, Maryland, where creeks zigzag in
the lonesome dark of the forest, and a red moon hangs overhead.
These are songs of leaving, of dreams both good and bad, sung
from surroundings they’ve known their whole lives.
· In ‘By Morning Light’, Nau and Whitney McGraw’s voices draw
each other out of a contemplative melancholy and into a state of
amazed gratification; the music here shimmers with simple,
understated perfection.
· According to Nau, “there’s no intentional theme behind these
songs. Cocoon didn’t span a lengthy duration of time, so headspace
and moods tended to remain thread-like throughout. I
believe there’s a familiar mood from start to finish... the lyrics work
like visuals of such moods”.

Up A Tree (Went This Heart I Have)
Gotta Cheer Up
Some
Strange Rain
Gone The Bells
Photo Summerlude
By Morning Light
Cotton & Velvet
Little Ashtray In The Sun
Blood Red Sentimental Blues
I Am The Changer

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