All The Colors Of Your Heart

Cotton Jones “Gotta Cheer Up”

The first time I heard this song, it was snowing. Through all the white, the sunlight had a soft, pale amber hue that reflected off the ice, and through the flakes. Time seemed to move very slowly, and though there was plenty of movement, there was an overwhelming sense of stillness and grace just outside my window. In other words, I experienced this music under seemingly ideal conditions. Cotton Jones’ album Paranoid Cocoon sounds warm, soothing, and hazy, as though it was all shot in soft focus, and processed with a sepia toner. The music has a highly appealing ambiance, but its low key melodies are very emotionally engaging, and seem to draw me in deeper upon repeated listening. As implied by its title, “Gotta Cheer Up” is a rather melancholy number, but despite its lightly bummed vocals and stoned mid-tempo beat, bits of bright notes cut through the darkness and fog, like tiny blinking beacons of hopeful light.

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