Cotillon

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After the release of his debut S/T LP, who SPIN Magazine (among others) honed one of 2015’s best, and a tour across the US, Corso sold nearly everything he had and boarded a plane for New York. So the story goes, Corso wrote everyday taking inspiration from his new Metropolis.

After Corso recorded a large collection of demos in his apartment, it began time to figure out how to craft LP number two. The first person he showed them to was Shane Butler of New York via Boston’s Quilt, whose work Corso strongly admires.

“When I got the demos I felt like they were a pretty good metaphor for Jordan as I knew him. One of the things I really like about Jordan is that he is caught in this interstice between high-culture & low-culture; between the cleaner aspects of life and the grittier. I heard both these sides of him in the demos he showed me. Jordan also seemed really into this idea of making a ‘New York’ record. As someone who grew up partly in New York City, the prospect of making a ‘New York’ record in 2015/16 is a very complicated thing. That concept wrestles with some of the ideas that I saw in Jordan’s personality. It is something of the high & the low; the grime & the glitter; the superficial & the genuine. All of which were attributes I saw in the songwriting at the time and heard from Jordan when he talked about what he wanted from a new record.” said Butler.