Dailymotion Elevate: Cones - "Eyes of Propane" at Cafe Bohemia, NYC
- 4 years ago
Dailymotion Elevate Presents: Cones sit down for a One On One Session at Cafe Bohemia New York. Watch the full session here: https://dai.ly/k37X8U8QJLnhNAvuv1r For more info visit: https://www.conestheband.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin
Setlist:
Eyes of Propane
Straight Lines
Moonstone
Echoes On
“It’s an amazing thing to work with your brother,” says Jonathan Rosen, one half of the breakout sibling duo Cones. “When you know someone that well, when you can truly be yourself with them, when you can create together without inhibition, something indescribable happens.”
It’s that indescribable chemistry that fuels Cones’ spectacular debut album, ‘Pictures of Pictures.’ Recorded at the band’s own Honeymoon Suite studio in LA, the record offers up an intoxicating blend of shimmering psychedelic exploration and muscular pop craftsmanship, complete with infectious hooks and deep grooves that simultaneously hint at everything from Big Star and the Replacements to ELO and the Bee Gees. The Rosen brothers draw on their radically different backgrounds here to remarkable effect: keyboardist/producer Michael is classically-trained and technically-minded, with a degree in composition and music technology; guitarist and principal singer/songwriter Jonathan has always taken a more intuitive, abstract approach based on his obsessive love for classic pop. The result is a whole far greater than the sum of its parts, a record that feels at once futuristic and vintage, spontaneous and deliberate, playful and profound.
Listening to ‘Pictures of Pictures,’ you might expect to find that the Rosen brothers have been playing together since childhood, but the truth is that they only began collaborating much more recently. As members of the New York indie band Icewater, they opened for and backed up The Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger extensively on the road, and in 2014, they moved back to LA to write and record on what would become Friedberger’s critically acclaimed ‘New View’ album. The more time the pair spent working together, though, the more they began to understand the special bond they shared and the unique way their respective strengths could fit together.
“Beyond the ‘cuteness’ of being brothers in a band, there was this unconditional love and understanding that allowed us to create better things together than either one of us could alone,” says Michael.
Under the name Cones, the brothers released a series of early singles to rapturous response. KCRW hailed the music’s “easy breezy SoCal feel,” while Stereogum called it “wonderfully groovy synth-pop," and Fader described the tunes as “golden” and “sunny.” Tapping into his visual side, Jonathan created a series of extraordinary animated music videos to accompany the tracks (he’s also animated videos for Friedberger, Toro y Moi, and Delicate Steve), capturing the off-kilter nature of the songs with trippy, kinetic images that flow and morph endlessly into each other.
Setlist:
Eyes of Propane
Straight Lines
Moonstone
Echoes On
“It’s an amazing thing to work with your brother,” says Jonathan Rosen, one half of the breakout sibling duo Cones. “When you know someone that well, when you can truly be yourself with them, when you can create together without inhibition, something indescribable happens.”
It’s that indescribable chemistry that fuels Cones’ spectacular debut album, ‘Pictures of Pictures.’ Recorded at the band’s own Honeymoon Suite studio in LA, the record offers up an intoxicating blend of shimmering psychedelic exploration and muscular pop craftsmanship, complete with infectious hooks and deep grooves that simultaneously hint at everything from Big Star and the Replacements to ELO and the Bee Gees. The Rosen brothers draw on their radically different backgrounds here to remarkable effect: keyboardist/producer Michael is classically-trained and technically-minded, with a degree in composition and music technology; guitarist and principal singer/songwriter Jonathan has always taken a more intuitive, abstract approach based on his obsessive love for classic pop. The result is a whole far greater than the sum of its parts, a record that feels at once futuristic and vintage, spontaneous and deliberate, playful and profound.
Listening to ‘Pictures of Pictures,’ you might expect to find that the Rosen brothers have been playing together since childhood, but the truth is that they only began collaborating much more recently. As members of the New York indie band Icewater, they opened for and backed up The Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger extensively on the road, and in 2014, they moved back to LA to write and record on what would become Friedberger’s critically acclaimed ‘New View’ album. The more time the pair spent working together, though, the more they began to understand the special bond they shared and the unique way their respective strengths could fit together.
“Beyond the ‘cuteness’ of being brothers in a band, there was this unconditional love and understanding that allowed us to create better things together than either one of us could alone,” says Michael.
Under the name Cones, the brothers released a series of early singles to rapturous response. KCRW hailed the music’s “easy breezy SoCal feel,” while Stereogum called it “wonderfully groovy synth-pop," and Fader described the tunes as “golden” and “sunny.” Tapping into his visual side, Jonathan created a series of extraordinary animated music videos to accompany the tracks (he’s also animated videos for Friedberger, Toro y Moi, and Delicate Steve), capturing the off-kilter nature of the songs with trippy, kinetic images that flow and morph endlessly into each other.