CONES Share New Song + Interactive 360-degree VR Music Video - LISTEN/WATCH NOW!

CONES SHARE NEW SONG “OUTSIDE” WITH VR/360-DEGREE INTERACTIVE VIDEO - LISTEN/WATCH HERE Debut album Pictures of Pictures out now via Dangerbird

(Credit: Eden Rubinpour) Praise for Cones: “Golden...sunny rock.” - The FADER “Wonderfully groovy synth-pop" - Stereogum  “Easy breezy SoCal feel we love so much.” - KCRW  “Equally filled with touches of Tame Impala as well as The Bee Gees, Pictures of Pictures lead single ‘Moonstone’ is an ethereal track with a heavy emphasis on funky synths and transcendent vocals.” - Paste “‘Seeing Triple’ continues [Cones’] rise, this oddball ear-worm that matches flecks of shoegaze - think Ride crunch, or dreamy My Bloody Valentine scenes - with some impeccable synth pop. In a way it puts us in mind of those classic hit singles from The Cure, during their imperial yet always challenging Top Of The Pops phase. Brothers Jonathan and Michael Rosen deliver bleached out scuzz-pop in true LA fashion…” - Clash "If John Hughes was alive and making movies in 2019, Cones would inevitably end up on one of his soundtracks. Not that the music is retro or dated; “Seeing Triple” just personifies a similarly wide-eyed exuberance amongst the pains of youth that marked Hughes’ legendary movie music selections." - FLOOD Magazine Los Angeles-based Cones - a.k.a brothers Jonathan and Michael Rosen - released their spectacular debut album Pictures of Pictures at the end of 2019 on Dangerbird, and today they share their first new music of 2020. “Outside” is a downtempo yet sunny meditation on feelings of isolation amidst quarantine, and feels like the soundtrack to a wonderfully simple day of lying on the grass, looking up at the sky. Its accompanying video--an interactive, 360-degree VR music video featuring coding and design by Michael and illustrations by Jonathan (who is known for his animated videos for Erykah Badu, Toro Y Moi, Eleanor Friedberger, Delicate Steve, and more)--perfectly captures those feelings. “Creating the video for ‘Outside’ was an exercise in escapism. We wanted to construct an absurd and colorful dream world that we could visit any time while stuck in our homes,” the brothers explain. Watch it now and listen to the song HERE or HERE via Under The Radar.

The idea for this video came from a previous collaboration called Bob’s Room, another immersive 360-degree VR creation from Cones, but this time an app and a game that explores the many layers of Pictures of Pictures, enhancing the visual and sonic experience of the record. “We approached the video for ‘Outside’ with the same mentality as we had while creating Bob’s Room,” says Jonathan. “Just trying to broaden our collaborations and create something neither one of us could have made on our own.” Bob's Room is available now as an app for iOS and Android.  With touring on hold, Cones have been staying busy curating an on-going livestream min-festival with their own Honeymoon Suite Studio in LA. The series, Room Service, has featured the likes of Martin Courtney, Hand Habits, Jerry Paper, SadGirl, Dent May, Shannon Lay, Frankie Cosmos, Hazel English, and many more. Purchase, download or stream Pictures of Pictures, out now on Dangerbird, HERE.

While the Rosens only began making music together a few years ago, through touring with The Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger as both her backing band and members of her opener Icewater, this Cones debut is a long time coming. After releasing a handful of singles, the band went into a friend’s studio to collaborate with a producer for the first time and recorded what they thought would be their first LP. Ultimately, the album did not feel to the brothers like a Cones record, so they returned to their home studio and started from scratch. Now, the album which offers up an intoxicating blend of shimmering psychedelic exploration and muscular pop craftsmanship, will be released this Fall.  Listening to Pictures of Pictures, one might expect to find that the Rosen brothers have been playing together since childhood, but the truth is that they only began collaborating much more recently. “As a little kid, I wanted do everything except music,” says Jonathan. “When I was sixteen, though, I lost a friend to suicide, and I started writing all these poems and songs as a way to deal with it.” The brothers began to make music separately - Jonathan in punk band Cardboard, and Michael performing in New York indie band Icewater. The two came together musically for the first time following the tragic loss of Michael’s Icewater bandmate, Grant, and - while no one could ever replace him - Jonathan was asked to join the band. Icewater led to the brothers deciding to make something for themselves, and the end result is Cones, named after Jonathan’s favorite color: traffic cone orange. “Beyond the ‘cuteness’ of being brothers in a band, there was this unconditional love and understanding that allowed us to create better things together than either one of us could alone,” says Michael.