Featured on Plastic Mag: https://plasticmag.co.uk/2023/03/02/folk-pop-from-phoebe-coco/

Release date: 17th February 2023 on all streaming platforms 
Headline show at Folklore, Hackney 22nd Feb 2023 

You know what your doing, yes with your life

Clear Eyes is a piece of musical affirmation, a song of encouragement to embrace life in the present, beginning with one's own reflection, while in conversation with the lingering ‘shadows on the shore’. A wider theme emerges in the song's chorus to speak of embracing our natural world while looking into changing landscapes. Environmental themes are ongoing within Phoebe Coco’s music; Clear Eyes has been performed live in a plethora of environments, from climate protests, joining the likes of Massive Attack on the line up on the Extinction Rebellion stage, to stripped back, acapella under the trees to intimate audiences at ‘The Urban Tree Festival’ marking the opening of Phoebe Coco’s musical installation ‘Tree Song Tree Trail’. Natural themes are further reflected in the music video made by award winning director Katya Ganfeld as Phoebe Coco dances deep, enchanted, in the natural landscape. 

Clear Eyes is a new sonic direction for Phoebe Coco, who’s vocals have been likened to Anna Calvi by Radio X’s Sarah Gosling, as she sings the song within into a textural world underpinned by minimalist piano amongst growling bass synths and cello with mellifluous saxophone, flute and electronica involving a host of London's finest musicians. Phoebe Coco’s acapella project has been has been described as ‘haunting and beautiful’ by Robert Macfarlane (BBC 4 Front Row), and includes Phoebe Coco’s family,  her mother and sisters Sophie Wright, Dorothy Wright-Spinks, and Grace Wright-Spinks, who sing the harmonies on the track while Thomas Broda best known for his work with Dana Gavanski plays percussion, and Izz Karpel on saxophone, who plays on the London new jazz scene with emerging bands such as ALULA. 

Clear Eyes has been co-produced by Phoebe Coco and multi-grammy award winning Eduardo De La Paz and mastered by 2022 Mastering Engineer of the year Kevin Tuffy and is the first single in the lead up to Phoebe Coco’s forthcoming EP. 

Phoebe Coco released her debut album ‘My White Horse & I’ in 2020, receiving high critical acclaim and has been played from 6 Music to Radio 2. She is currently studying a music master’s at Goldsmiths university, while continuing her work as a composer scoring for film and live performance. In 2022 she created a musical tree walk titled ‘Tree Song’ across London boroughs, elements of which will feature in the release of the EP as a whole.  


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If you have ever found yourself yearning for an original and haunting Saturday night, Phoebe Coco has just the thing
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Clear Eyes

A little tune I made on a hot day with a bad a cold🏖️

Chanan Hanspal feat. Imaani from Incognito. Remix by Kay Suzuki. Percussion original sample by Kakatsitsi Drummers. Fender Rhodes by Jessica Lauren. Released Jan 2009.

Chanan Hanspal - It's only just a garden (Kay Suzuki Remix)

Out on Sharp Attack records on Friday the 6th of December

The night sky is thinning, into daytime 
I see a faint moon still slightly glowing 
My head is still spinning, from here I see at least four empty bottles of wine 
But I’m feeling more or less fine I guess 

Take a pull of a morning cigarette, live life strong, no regrets 
But alcohol does funny things to my head and my head dictates what gets said so
Think I’ve lost half my things, they’re my belongings
As well as a damn good night's sleep, bags under the eyes, what a surprise

I don't know, I don't know
How to describe last night
Because I don’t really remember much 
The missing link, and too much time to think and now it’s all 

Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 

The night sky is thinning, a violet rise
First birds fly, dawn is showing 
My head is spinning, hear them breath 
Others sleep, dream to dream, while I lie still

I don't know, I don't know
How to describe last night
Because I don’t really remember much 
The missing link, and too much time to think and now its all 

Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 

One sweep of your hand 
All of the colours
Swirl into quicksand
They are washed over 
Time she forgave us 
Just like she promised 
It's been so many years 
I will remember this 


The night sky is thinning, into daytime
My head is spinning

I don't know, I don't know
How to describe that night
Because I don’t really remember much 
The missing link and too much time to think and now it’s all 
Look what the cat dragged in

LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN

Phoebe Coco’s piano is reminiscent of Phillip Glass and undulates with synth bass, drum machines, harmonicas and shakers with the voices of Phoebe Coco and her sisters textured harmonies lulling us throughout.
 Co-produced by Marc Makarov, Vanessa Anne Redd (of Sharp Attack Records) and Phoebe herself, it has been mixed by multi Grammy award winning Eduardo De La Paz, and mastered by Kevin Tuffy.

Different

'Strangeness led us here...’
 The song came to be through a series of dream like scenes, words and frequencies on the air.  A tapestry of undulating harmonies, hums, Phoebe Coco’s voice and three pianos are woven together co-produced with Marc Makavov and mixed by Grammy Award winning Eduardo De Le Paz.

Strangeness

London based, welsh born artist and composer Phoebe Coco released her acclaimed debut album in 2020:  ‘My White Horse & I’ - achieving local, national and global radio play from the likes of BBC 6 Music. She was nominated best female artist of the year in the Radio Wigwam awards. Phoebe Coco currently performs and writes songs for the environment, most specifically trees, in a project titled ‘Tree Song’. She currently has a musical ‘Tree Song Tree Trail’ where her songs can be heard - installed across green spaces of London.  Her recent writings and performances with trees have been aired by renowned author Robert Macfarlane on BBC 4 Front Row. In this performance she sang her vocal arrangement of his ‘Charm-against-Harm’: ‘Heartwood’. 



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