Single · 2024

Cold Open

A warm, sung-and-spoken street portrait of a busker at dusk, the softest turn in an otherwise razor-sharp catalogue.

Tracks

1. Saxophone on Fifth and VineI wanted to write about someone clocking in for a job nobody pays him for. It's the warmest thing I've made, and I let myself sing a little.neo soul, jazz rap3:42

Liner notes

After the label signed me I wanted one song that lowered the temperature without losing the detail. I watched a saxophone player set up on a corner every evening on my walk to the cafe, and I wrote down what the crosswalk chirps sounded like around him. I kept the rhymes loose and let the melody carry the verses for once.

Mara Voss