Cotton Jones - Paranoid Cocoon - Solar Flare Color Vinyl Record
Paranoid Cocoon is the 2009 Suicide Squeeze album that introduced most listeners to Cotton Jones, the Maryland project led by Michael Nau with Whitney McGraw. Coming out of Nau's earlier work in Page France, it trades that band's bright chamber pop for something slower and smokier: warm, reverb-soaked folk, gentle country shuffles and late-night soul, built around the easy blend of Nau's and McGraw's voices.
Songs like "Blood Red Sentimental Blues" and "Gotta Cheer Up" have the worn-in feel of old AM radio records, while "By Morning Light" and "Little Ashtray In the Sun" drift by like a summer afternoon that refuses to end. It is a record that rewards quiet listening, and it has quietly built a devoted following in the years since.
This Suicide Squeeze reissue is pressed on Solar Flare color vinyl, a fitting look for an album this sun-warmed. A lovely pickup for fans of Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, Mazzy Star or Nau's later solo records.
Side A
1. Up A Tree (Went This Heart I Have)
2. Gotta Cheer Up
3. Some Strange Rain
4. Gone the Bells
5. Photo Summerlude
Side B
1. By Morning Light
2. Cotton & Velvet
3. Little Ashtray In the Sun
4. Blood Red Sentimental Blues
5. I Am the Changer
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Returns
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Avoid extreme heat or sunlight. Definitely don’t let it mingle with any Justin Bieber records. Treat it like your grandma — gentle, respectful, and quiet during Murder, She Wrote.
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Cotton Jones - Paranoid Cocoon - Solar Flare Color Vinyl Record
