Itasca - Imitation of War (Official Video)
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Itasca's "Imitation of War” is out February 9, 2024 on Paradise of Bachelors.
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ALBUM ABSTRACT:

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 catalog.

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

VIDEO CREDITS:

Starring: Kayla Cohen, Caroline Keith, Evan Burrows, Daniel Swire, Tynan Kerr, Rachel Blomgren, Sophie Weil, Robbie Cody, Evan Backer, Ella Andersson, Kuniko Vroman

Filmed by: K. Cohen, T. Kerr, D. Swire, Dylan Sharp

Directed by: K. Cohen

Thank you to Kuniko and Helping Hoof EAAT, Los Angeles Arboretum

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PoB artist page: https://paradiseofbachelors.com/itasca
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Bandcamp: https://itasca.bandcamp.com/
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LYRICS:

imitation of war

chasing the next
the plateau there and
the rain it falls careless
on the oil I’m painting

and I’m crying to catch her
the line that I’ve tethered here
she’s fleeing the judgment
in a careless rain

and her muse’s crown on my head
stings like a tear

Was it a snare set by the devil?
then I fell right in
or I was a saint
there on the chapel font
in this Imitation of War

I was outside
watching the orange tree
as the blossoms turned
and the spear weaves the laurel

and I’m crying to catch you
muse in the laurel tree
I will paint the flowers
just chain them to me

and her muse’s crown on my head
stings like a tear

Was it a snare set by the devil?
then I fell right in
or I was a saint
there on the chapel font
in this imitation of war