#cobey

Kehlani sat cross legged on the floor of her bother’s apartment soaking up the love of the tiny kittens her older brother Cobey had rescued. They weren’t permanent fixtures in the home, just passerby’s like her who needed a temporary place to crash. She kinda sorta wanted to convince them to let her keep one, but with her new tour schedule keeping a tiny creature wasn’t in her cards.

“You can’t tell Blue or Cobey this...” Kehlani started as she mauvered a tiny ball of orange fluff, “But I think Day is the best big brother I got.” She’d tilt her head at the mewing creature that stared at her with wide yellow eyes. “No, he doesn’t count.” She remarked with the shake of her head. It was as if the kitten had made some glaringly obvious statement about her slightly older than her twin. “Day understands, he gets that I’m here for good reasons and hasn’t kept me at such a distance. He’s showing me what it’s like to have one of those families like they got in the movies.”

Due to some odd glitch in the matrix, we hitherto missed out on Chicago singer songwriter Cobey., but now that the indie artist has emerged from the shadows to release his first song in four years, we can’t get enough of the bittersweet nostalgia and a beautiful disquietude that crests out of California Dreams. Misty folk and pastoral indietronica come together on the windblown first single from Cobey.’s forthcoming new record. California Dreams explores the questions and feelings of seeing Cobey.’s old bandmates and best friends move across the country. Its melody might be heartbreaking and melancholic, but the gebtke hypnosis the exquisite song puts us in brings on a staggering sense of soothing bliss. Cobey. wrote and recorded the song in part at his home studio, and in part at Chicago Recording Company, after which he collaborated with members of the creative team at Gimlet Media for production. In conjunction with the single release, a collaborative dance music video was made with Chicago photographer/stop-motion artist McKenzie Hanson and Chicago dancer Caitlin Rafferty, which you can view below. We may have evaded the sonic grips of Cobey. previously, but we’ll never escape it now that we’ve been astonished by California Dreams. You can also stream the single on Spotify, here.