OUT JANUARY 25, 2023 ON BOILED RECORDS
SHARES CINEMA NOIR INSPIRED VIDEO TO THE TITLE TRACK
PRODUCED BY OLIVIER FAIRFIELD
WATCH “MOONLIT BUILDING” HERE
STREAM & BUY “MOONLIT BUILDING” HERE
PERFORMS NOV 25 AT THE HORSESHOE WITH THE RHEOSTATICS
STILL IMAGE FROM “MOONLIT BUILDING” // Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor
Cots – the Montreal-based solo project of composer, singer, and guitarist Steph Yates – today shares "Moonlit Building," her first release since the 2021 debut album Disturbing Body, which CBC Music likened to Let It Die-era Feist, and MOJO described as "the sophistication of Everything But The Girl's Eden meets the sadness of Portuguese fado." Produced by Olivier Fairfield – member of FET.NAT, glitch duo Album, and contributor to the incomparable music of Andy Shauf, Timber Timbre, Last Ex and many more – "Moonlit Building" deepens the beautiful, somber, mysterious elements of Yates’s songwriting. Where Disturbing Body weaves elements of bossanova together with jazz and classical, Cots's askew folk takes on a cinematic noir quality with Fairfield's accompaniment: her crystalline voice and nylon guitar devolving in unison with his gravely baritone, cavernous guitar, and eroding rhythm.
Yates says: "I have long admired Olivier’s rhythmic sensibility and his knack for moodiness in production, and felt he might be a good match for this set of songs. Working in-studio together was collaborative and experimental: trying things out, trading off instruments, seeing what stuck."
“Moonlit Building” is accompanied by a music video created with director Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor and "a small crew of pals," wherein Yates is the protagonist of a surreal cinema noir-inspired scene. The tension of the unseen and the unknown fits the song’s im/balanced, decelerating beat.
WATCH “MOONLIT BUILDING” HERE
“Moonlit Building” is the title track to a five song collection that will be released January 25, 2023 on Boiled Records, the Toronto experimental label who released Disturbing Body. The Moonlit Building EP deftly blends the hushed intimacy of Cots’s voice with the fringe musical influences of her roots in the Guelph, Ontario DIY scene, where she learned to be “loud, assertive, and unabashedly scrappy” in outfits like Esther Grey and Cupcake Ductape. A startling evolution of her lush sonic palette, the Moonlit Building EP further bends Cots’s spare and beautiful sound with a reshuffling of a Disturbing Body centerpiece “Flowers (Fresh Cut)” and the celestial lounge sound of “Devil Does.”
STREAM & BUY “MOONLIT BUILDING” HERE
Cots performs solo opening for The Rheostatics at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on November 25. More Ontario dates below.
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MOONLIT BUILDING TRACKLIST
1. Moonlit Building
2. Flowers (Fresh Cut)
3. Devil Does
4. The Woman With No Face
5. No Way No How
PRESS PHOTO // Matthew Cardinal - DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
Praise for Disturbing Body:
“A meditation on loneliness and the complexities of the heart, a secret told from Cots to you only.” - CBC Music
"Cots leans into gentleness” - Exclaim!
"Closeness and intimacy shine through" - The Line of Best Fit
“Brilliant debut album” - Bandcamp
"Nocturnal, pensive, and melancholic" - Atwood
TOUR DATES:
Nov 25 - Toronto ON - Legendary Horseshoe Tavern w/ The Rheostatics
Nov 26 - Kitchener ON - The Yeti w/ Ein Sof