Itasca announces new album "Spring," out 11/1 on Paradise of Bachelors

ITASCA Announces New Album Spring Out November 1 on Paradise Of Bachelors Releases New Single “Bess’s Dance”

Photo credit: Joanne Kim "It all suggests the balm of a gentle breeze beneath the bright sunlight, a feeling you’d want to capture indefinitely. Cohen does exactly that, suspending an instant in eternal amber. She is able to conjure up something resembling transcendence." - PITCHFORK "The mellow glow [her music] generates is reason enough to want to bask in its evanescent light for as long as life's harsher aspects can conceivably be held at bay." - NPR "Itasca's old-soul vocals and antique acoustic guitar conjure up classic folkies from years past like Vashti Bunyan." - VOGUE "Music that gives a warm, floaty, spectral take on the singer-songwriter music of the ’70s." - STEREOGUM "Simultaneously spare and complex, observational folk ballads turned psychic and strange by metal-stringed dissonance and troubling Symbolist metaphor." - MOJO Itasca, the folk project of California songwriter Kayla Cohen, has announced her new album Spring, due out November 1 on Paradise Of Bachelors. After releasing 2016’s acclaimed Open to Chance, Cohen escaped Los Angeles for a six-month retreat to a 100-year-old adobe house in rural New Mexico. Cohen wrote the ten songs of Spring there, inspired by the region’s vast isolation and rich cultural history. The album’s title refers to the desert’s sparse water sources, which Cohen envisions as “the search for true connection to the earth, the seductive nature of answers... the dusty spring deep in the mind that keeps us sifting.” The Fader announced the album today and premiered its first single “Bess’s Dance,” calling it "a beguiling rumination on the expanses she faced during the recording of the album." Spring is out November 1 on Paradise Of Bachelors and features contributions from James Elkington, Chris Cohen, and members of Bitchin' Bajas, Gun Outfit, and Sun Araw. It is available for pre-order in physical and digitalformat. Itasca plays Los Angeles’ Zebulon this Thursday, August 22. Details are HERE. 

Itasca - Spring November 1, 2019 - Paradise Of Bachelors 1. Lily 2. Only a Traveler 3. Bess’s Dance 4. Comfort’s Faces 5. Voice of the Beloved 6. Blue Spring 7. Cornsilk 8. Plains 9. Golden Fields 10. A’s Lament