LP released: Feb 09, 2024
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 |
