{"id":38407,"date":"2022-09-07T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38407"},"modified":"2022-09-04T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T12:58:11","slug":"coma-girls-release-new-lp-no-umbrella-for-star-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38407","title":{"rendered":"Coma Girls release new LP \u2018No Umbrella For Star Flower\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles shoegaze\/folk-rock act Coma Girls, aka songwriter Chris Spino,\u00a0has officially released\u00a0his new LP,\u00a0\u2018No Umbrella For Star Flower,\u2019 out everywhere now via\u00a0Baby Robot Records. Since announcing the record in July, Coma Girls have garnered praise from numerous media outlets including\u00a0Under the Radar Mag, Riff Magazine, Chorus.FM, Tuned Up, Glide Magazine, Buzzbands LA, If It&#8217;s Too Loud, and more.\u00a0Listen to \u2018No Umbrella For Star Flower\u2019 via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PLBx9dCO_xhl4Zyzyf2UBzKQgNZUMXMa0B\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spino has been going through some changes. In fact, Coma Girls\u2019 entire history has been marked by metamorphosis. From Spino\u2019s turn away from his roots to the lo-fi\/neo-garage style of 2015\u2019s self-titled debut, to the jangly alt-country of <em>Smoking Gun<\/em>, the 7-inch that chronicled his move to LA, and the psych-folk of 2021\u2019s \u2018Skyboxer\u2019 that mined the trenches of addiction, Coma Girls\u2019 releases have consistently been characterized by Spino\u2019s own personal and musical reinvention. Now, Spino is preparing to release Coma Girls\u2019 latest, the maximalist, shoegazey folk-rock album \u2018No Umbrella For Star\u00a0Flower,\u2019 and finds himself in the throes of another transitional stage, emerging from the isolation of the pandemic newly sober and with fewer demons to slay.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>This record was my one escape, the one thing that kept me from going off the rails,\u201d <\/em>says Spino. \u201c<em>It\u2019s a pandemic record, a relapse record, a break-up record, and a recovery record. This was the thing that was keeping me sane.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Spino formed Coma Girls more than a decade ago as an outlet for his solo singer\/songwriter material, the project has taken on numerous different iterations as a solo project, a band, a rotating cast of studio musicians, and now, on \u2018No Umbrella For Star Flower,\u2019 a two-man collaboration between Spino and producer Christian Paul Philippe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI played about 95% of the record and Christian produced the whole thing,\u201d<\/em> says Spino. \u201c<em>We were talking a lot about Sparklehorse and the dynamic between Mark Linkous and Dangermouse, or Christopher Owens and Chet White from Girls, just that two-handed approach. I did all the songwriting, soundscapes, string arrangements, etc. myself, and then Christian helped me figure out the sound styles and we had a couple people pinch hit for specific parts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those pinch hitters include Dan Gee (Tropa Magica), who contributed piano to three tracks on the record, and pedal steel extraordinaire Connor \u201cCatfish\u201d Gallaher (Black Lips, Tim Heidecker &amp; Weyes Blood), as well as backing vocalists Rosselinni Rogel and Paige Vreede. Apart from their specialized contributions, however, \u2018No Umbrella For Star Flower\u2019 stands as a testament to Spino\u2019s growth and talents as a standalone songwriter and studio performer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>I\u2019ve finally come to a place where I feel like I can play all these parts and don\u2019t need someone better than me to come in and play them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018No Umbrella For Star Flower\u2019 kicks off with <em>Knife<\/em>, an electrifying folk-rock song that showcases Spino\u2019s lyrical intimacy atop massive blown-out production that calls to mind the best of Bright Eyes without ever sounding derivative. Later on the album, <em>Jaded<\/em> takes up a similar cadence, blending the confessional nature of indie-folk with full-on shoegaze as bone-rattling distorted guitars soundtrack Spino\u2019s attempts to gain control in a cycle of relapse and recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout \u2018No Umbrella For Star Flower,\u2019 Spino lays bare his struggles with addiction, love, depression and more without ever coming across as alienating or self-centered. There\u2019s a nuanced conversational tone to his lyricism that is simultaneously uniquely descriptive and universally relatable, a balancing act that can be credited to the dedication to pop music that has stayed steadfast at the core of Coma Girls\u2019 music.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI started this project with the idea of playing pop music the way a punk band would,\u201d<\/em> says Spino. \u201c<em>But now, I\u2019m more focused on just writing songs without any preconceived notion of genre. I\u2019m just doing things exactly how I think they should be done without anything else in mind. I like to think that if I stay true to that and make things I really believe in, then other people will feel that too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Los Angeles shoegaze\/folk-rock act Coma Girls, aka songwriter Chris Spino,\u00a0has officially released\u00a0his new LP,\u00a0\u2018No Umbrella For Star Flower,\u2019 out everywhere now via\u00a0Baby Robot Records. 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