Jackie Cohen - Zagg [CD]

Cat. no: CDEL355
Format: CD
Barcode: 810599022761
Release Date: 10 Feb 2023
Genre: Rock

Hi, my name is Jackie Cohen and I've got a new record - The title is Zagg, a nickname I picked up in high school as some dumb Kerouac-related joke (I actually remember but I don't want to tell you), and also a word that means a sharp change of direction

I chose it for a number of reasons.

First and foremost: it's gonna look tight on an embroidered hat. As the famous adage goes, Lead with your merch! Next: Zagg is me, my name, and this record is my frst real, intentional, nearly unabashed step toward being myself confdently out in the world. Here I am! Here are my songs. Finally: making this record was truly a life zagg for me. I quit my marketing job. I quit my teaching job. I quit my sausage sampling at the mall job. I started taking my meds as directed. This is my SSNRI record. I'm refecting instead of spiraling. Got my egg cracked a few times but I'm landing sunny side up. Like the Bridge of Avignon, I am partly destroyed but quickly rebuilt. I'm in cahoots with the Avengers of record-making.  Still not perfect, but what's so sexy about perfect? The intrigue's in the pockmarks. This record is extremely fun.

Zagg is a Jonathan Rado + Matthew E. White co-production. We played X-Files on mute for the entire two weeks we spent tracking with the Spacebomb House Band. We all got the fu. Two among us came down with foot & mouth disease (won't name names). The playing and production is bright and beautiful across the whole grab- bag of love songs, laments, self- mortifcations, meditations on sunscreen, hammer- anvil jams, and kit v. kit double drum cardio smash- bros looney tunes suicide pursuits. Don't get me started on Trey Pollard's freak- of-nature orchestral arrangements.

Tracks: FMK / Caught in a Feeling / Get Out / Take Care of Your Skin / Chico Chico / My Size / It Hurts / Too Cold To Cry / Yesterday's Baby / Goodbye Love of Mine / Keep Runner