DOORS 7PM
COCOJOEY’S exuberant debut thrums like a rhythm game RPG OST from a parallel universe: present-day dilemmas as dungeon-crawl boss battles, and real life joy as a race across candy-coated synth panoramas. This is a more inviting way to face existential pain – not a facile attempt at escape from it.
Simultaneously refined and relatable, the lyric sheets here loop seamlessly between the reflective and the aspirational. Swallowed together, these tracks present a character creator screen ready to transmute outer darkness into inner liberation, boosting any listener as their own low-poly main character in pursuit of a most elusive level-up: acceptance.
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COCOJOEY makes happy hyper-bitpop wiisportscore fusion-type breakbeats inspired by cats, PSX-era pause menus, and ontological crises. A classically-trained pianist and in-demand composer/producer, COCOJOEY has "Symphony Center” on the resume, but for this project, an uncommon command of harmony and orchestration are never in danger of eclipsing an ebullient sonic experience.