Cots - Disturbing Body
Boiled
Disturbing Body is out today via Boiled Records on vinyl and digital formats. Cots will perform songs from the album in a special live collaboration with Olivier Fairfield (of FET.NAT, Timber Timbre, Album, Andy Shauf, and more) on Sunday, August 22 at 8pm ET on Bandcamp Live. Tickets are $8 on sale HERE.
“A fascinating English language affair which evokes both the sophistication of Everything But The Girl’s Eden and the sadness of Portuguese fado” – MOJO
“Cots leans into gentleness” – Exclaim!
Disturbing Body, the intimate debut album by Cots, paints a celestial portrait of lost love and consequence. The solo project of Montreal/Guelph composer, singer, and guitarist Steph Yates blends elements of bossa nova, folk, jazz, and classical against a modern art backdrop, her subtly unconventional style brushed across its lush palette. Sparked by the power of celestial mechanics and her fascination with mathematics’ vast poetic potential, Disturbing Body explores the unexplainable interactions of interstellar bodies and human beings alike. The title – inspired by the phrase for a planet whose gravitational pull alters another planet’s course – speaks similarly to the disruptive nature of love.
Released today, at the height of Perseids meteor season, the ten songs of Disturbing Body are asterisms drawn to Yates’s mellifluous voice, to her cryptic tales flushed with pastel colour. “Flowers” presents Cots’s masterful blend of the delicate and the macabre: a gorgeous meditation on death that highlights her provoking lyricism. “Our Breath” showcases the album’s experimental tint and sundown habitat, softly flooded with warbled vocal effects and hand drums radiating ambience.
The album’s opening track, “Disturbing Body,” is a starry, forlorn, askew dirge that pulls you into its mysterious space with Yates’s enchanting voice: Searching for your disturbing body / The math doesn’t add up when I do it alone, amidst quiet passages of metallic percussion, bass solo, and strands of near silence. It is the perfect bookend to the album’s closing passage, “Midnight at the Station”: mysterious and lonesome, melodious yet vividly disquieting, an ambiguous end to the off-kilter note it began on. (continue reading full bio on download page)
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