‘Little Death Wishes’ is the eighth album of CocoRosie’s career, the first for Joyful Noise, having released records over the past twenty years for major labels such as Touch & Go, Sub Pop and City Slang. Since 2003, Bianca and Sierra Casady have turned the love, hardship and ecstasy of their sisterhood into some of the most daring, dangerous and original records to come out of the independent scene.

The twelve chapters of the new ‘Little Death Wishes’ tell the kaleidoscopic story of women’s generational difficulties and the shattered realities of their lives, of the precarious and precious nature of being human and of being damaged by love. The album reduces CocoRosie to their most brutal essence: turning pain into knowledge, sisterly relationships into controversy, trash into treasure, and turning kitsch and cliché elements into new truths. The duo’s eighth record is a rich bricolage of pop culture symbols that CocoRosie modify according to their sense of temporality. Contributing to the avant-garde, but at the same time indifferent to contemporary trends, the duo collects the musical detritus of other times and transforms it into new creations with a baroque tone.

‘The CocoRosie project is at the centre of our lives,’ says Bianca Casady. For the past 20 years they have been adored by the public, even when the critics did not understand their art. The CocoRosies have pursued the boldest and most daring paths, elevating the rawest, unravelled and tenderest strands of humanity and pushing themselves into the light.

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