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CHRIS COHEN was always a quiet kid. In fact, this introversion was one reason he began playing music as a toddler?to communicate without speaking to identify with others without the direct representation of words. It has worked, too, with Cohen?s terrific stint in the mighty Deerhoof and his own captivating art-rock act The Curtains, preceding production and session work for the likes of Weyes Blood, Kurt Vile, Le Ren, and Marina Allen. Somewhere along that long way, Cohen started writing lyrics. He found that, though it didn?t come naturally, the process offered a new sense of self-discovery and reckoning, a way to see himself and the world from unexpected angles. His three twilit albums of casually complicated pop during the last decade radiated these epiphanies: handling family strife, navigating advancing age, and understanding social woes.
 
But Cohen has never had as much to sing so directly as he does on ?Paint a Room?, his first album in five years and his debut for Hardly Art. If Cohen?s meanings have previously lurked inside the tessellated musical layers he built alone, they are newly clear and resonant here, animated and underscored for the first time by a band playing in real time. There is the endless miasma of state violence on the subversively melodious opener ?Damage,? the existential exhaustion of modernity on the horn-traced jangle ?Laughing?. With ?Paint a Room?, Cohen?s music feels like a warm spring breeze, easy to love and gentle to feel. But it?s often carrying something heavy, as if blowing in from some unseen storm cloud.
https://chriscohen.bandcamp.com

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The finest beer in London: 8 real ales and ciders, and a wide range of craft beer in keg, key keg, and bottle.

Check out our bottle fridge for takeaway options!

Venue for live music, comedy and theatre.

Food served daily (Monday and Tuesday: evenings only)
Extensive wine list and small-batch locally roasted coffee
Dogs welcome
Well-supervised children welcome up to 8pm

40 Stuart Road,

Nunhead,

London,

Greater London,

England,

SE15 3BE.

020 7277 8233