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Boston Story

by Cole Blu

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Boston Story 02:58
Clocking in - filter and gibraltar by the pond again - sweet song in the plastic pulse. Clocking in (sweet song) - refracted first sip, again - refracted focus, pulse elevates and you took care of me - after the breakup in the morning and you took care of me - after the breakup in the morning and you took care of me - (and Galoup, with all his jealousies, playing records and hand-grinding coffee) Clocking in (sweet song) - and years of walking through the door, to keep our dazed fog peels away - filter and gibraltar on the counter - fog - morning rushing line just peels away And later on she told me most of it - And later on she told me most of it - And later on she told me most of it - Painstaking labyrinths and bloodstains I hadn’t noticed - Painstaking labyrinths and bloodstains I hadn’t noticed. (Fair to worry when you started reading Mao but even worse was what they’d only hint about) But with your holy war and idols burning, sure - Searching for a habitable head - But with your holy war and idols burning, sure - Anxious hammer searching for a left-open door - With your holy war and hanging in - hunger and vibration in the blood, again - we need so damn many words. Return again - filter and gibraltar on the counter - retracing many clocks - gibraltar in the fog - gibraltar in the fog - gibraltar in the fog - gibraltar in the fog - gibraltar in the fog - gibraltar in the fog - gibraltar in the fog - gibraltar in the fog - gibraltar in the and here, the pond is unsettled by the wind again - wearing headphones after work. (And is this moment running?) And I thought I’d asked too much from everything - (And is this moment running?) And I thought I’d asked too much from everything - (When all the leaves are tumbling?)

about

Cole Blu’s forthcoming record Torso (out early 2023) deals primarily with memory: its deconstruction and reinvention, returning always to its fundamental alienness. In “Boston Story,” a New Wave-tinged day in the life set during a barista shift, Blu’s madeleine is the “Gibraltar” — a Spanish specialty that lends the track a caffeinated bounce as our singer floats along the house playlist, a veritable pantheon of coffeeshop idols. Winding among the Marquee Moon guitars and motorik drums (courtesy of fellow New York avant-savant Griffin Brown), Blu’s stream-of-consciousness lyric intercuts past, future, platonic intimacies, and everything from Paul Schrader’s Transcendental Style in Film to Nietzsche, Mao, and, of course, Ulysses.

And something, obliquely, is found. Walking by Jamaica Pond, Blu grasps: “I thought I’d asked too much from everything.” Past tense: a kinder rewrite has begun.

Ranging across epic inner expanses, “Boston Story” continues the intensely personal, memory-driven narrative project documented in Blu’s past singles, revealing a new range of influences — the Velvets, Talking Heads — as yet another synapse in the artist’s seemingly limitless sonic galaxy.

- Miles Hewitt, October 2022

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released November 4, 2022

All sounds by Cole Blouin, except:

Drums by Griffin Brown
Drums recorded by John Miller at Voyager Sound Studios
Mixed by Zack O'Brien and Cole Blouin
Mastered by Amar Lal
with album art by Sean Horner.

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Cole Blu Brooklyn, New York

NYC.

Interested in the poetics and broken narrativities of memory.

Songwriter, producer, guitarist, composer.

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