Blue Suicide

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In late 2010, Coma Cinema’s Mat Cothran launched the recording of the band’s third release in his now-vacant childhood home in the dead mill town of Glendale, South Carolina, despite failing equipment and the lack of a complete drum set. Though often having to carry his recorder and microphones around to take advantage of any instrumental opportunities available outside of his traditional set-up, Cothran’s Blue Suicide is a surprisingly solid arrangement of 15 Tracks. All of which were written and recorded single-handedly by Cothran on two cheap microphones that pull together to express an underlying theme of anger reflected by an unsettling environment. Blue Suicide is, in fact, a term that refers to a suicide at the hand of a police officer. In spite of an underfunded, instrumentally-limited, and emotionally-difficult recording process that helped to spark the melancholic tone of Blue Suicide, the songs themselves are anything but restricted in sound and construction, and even carry a few moments of pop-fueled hopefulness to offset the dark mood in songs like “Wondering” and “Desolation’s Plan.” Several media outlets featured tracks off Blue Suicide, including Pitchfork, with the Playlisted “Her Sinking Sun.”

“Cothran paints a lurid retroactive vista…something that is lo-fi, and yet, lush; it is earthly and yet ethereal. These colors never dry. Instead, they run and mix together into a beautiful mess.” –Obscure Sound

“unhurried, shivery and gorgeously melancholic” –Transparent