February 9 street date. On "Imitation Of War", songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, leanest, and most smolderingly electric guitar-forward recordings of Cohen's deepening catalogue. "Cohen's got a voice that glows like the sun at dusk, and plays guitar with a nimble yet intricate touch" - NPR. "Simultaneously haunting and heavenly ... shimmers with an eternal mystery" - MOJO. "Cohen's most salient talent is evocation - trapping place, weather, and physical presence like a butterfly pinned beneath glass" - Pitchfork.
February 9 street date. On "Imitation Of War", songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, leanest, and most smolderingly electric guitar-forward recordings of Cohen's deepening catalogue. "Cohen's got a voice that glows like the sun at dusk, and plays guitar with a nimble yet intricate touch" - NPR. "Simultaneously haunting and heavenly ... shimmers with an eternal mystery" - MOJO. "Cohen's most salient talent is evocation - trapping place, weather, and physical presence like a butterfly pinned beneath glass" - Pitchfork.