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I don't know much about this EP from some mysterious guy called Coco. The long title on the brown cardboard sleeve says 'Coco B's Basement Songs: Firehawks And Dirtybirds EP1", and that's about it. How can you find who or what is behind the 13-and-a-half minutes on this EP? Well, as always the internet should be a good place to start. Though the labyrinths of the World Wide Web brought me to a couple of MP3s on the record label's website (K-Double) and a brief section with an announcement of a full-length album to be released in early 2002, I still didn't find any useful information about its creators. OK, forget about this, and let's get back to the music. The quirky introduction of 'Hi Neighbor' (Ah, they've given titles to all eight songs.) will make you guess that Mark Oliver Everett (Eels' front man) is behind Coco B's basement songs. Maybe it is Robert Pollard's (yep, Guided By Voices) distorted microphone mumbling on the third track 'Watching Paint Dry'. Who knows? It could as well be Badly Drawn Boy, Elliott Smith, or U2's Bono. Oh my god, please don't let it be that Bono. Wherever I go, it's always Bono showing up. But it doesn't sound very much like Bono though. Coco sounds like, er, Coco - melancholic and lo-fi. Some of the songs are less than a minute long. Some of them aren't really songs, but short pieces of musical experimentation and imagination. But if you need any proof of a perfect indie pop song, than you'll have to listen to 'Big Okie Dokie'. Anyone who likes to hear something good before it becomes mainstream - listen up.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/coco-b/coco-b-s-basement-songs-firehawks-and-dirtbirds-ep1/1282/
Meer Coco B op KindaMuzik: http://www.kindamuzik.net/artiest/coco-b
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