Cots is a new project from Steph Yates (Esther Grey, Cupcake Ductape, French Perfume). Borrowing elements of bossa nova, folk, jazz, and classical, Yates’s subtly unconventional composition style and poetics are at work here in a hushed and more naked voice. The sounds and images of Cots are familiar the way dreams and shadows are; there appear strange landscapes, the vague outlines of former lovers, a quiet queerness, the feeling of motion. Cots’s debut record was produced by Sandro Perri and is pending release.
