Itasca - Imitation of War (Official Video)

Itasca’s “Imitation of War” is out February 9, 2024 on Paradise of Bachelors. Buy from artist/label (LP/CD/digital): Buy/stream elsewhere: 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 FOLLOW ITASCA: PoB artist page: Artist website: Bandcamp: Spotify: Soundcloud: YouTube: @itasca7137/featured Instagram: Twitter: Facebook: 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