Singer-Songwriter Cooper Chasse Unveils the Final Four Additions of the Quarantine Demos
Canadian singer-songwriter Cooper Chasse has just unveiled the final four additions of his Quarantine Demos collection on Spotify and Apple Music.
Following the quiet release of “Demos from Hancock Road” and “Yeti Demos”, the six-part acoustic collection is now complete with the release of “Yeti Demos 2”, “Autumn Ruminations”, “Fool”, and “Love to Give”.
The Quarantine Demos features 27 tracks in total, with 18 brand-new tracks including his single, “Stay”.
Inspired heavily by the Avett Brothers, Chasse delivers an acoustic folk sound with raw, refreshing honesty bleeding through his lyrics and performances that he hopes will resonate with listeners after the tumultuous past year.
A broken heart, a global pandemic and a lot of time for reflection while life was on pause led the 26-year-old to his new home.
Stripped back in every sense, five of the six albums were recorded between Chasse’s living room in Toronto and his living room in his new flat in London.
‘The recordings are a deeply personal story of love, loss and the existential confusion we all felt in some way or another in the past year,’ Chasse says.
‘I was in quarantine for two weeks when I got back from teaching in Korea for a year. I was stuck in a bedroom with a guitar, so I thought I may as well write some songs. It just snowballed from there.
‘There were a lot of emotions in the last part of last year – I wasn’t working, I’d just experienced a break-up, I was waiting to move to London. So I would pretty much just wake up, grab my guitar and write a song – pretty much every day.’
‘The collection kind of starts on the emotions of a broken heart; the confused feelings. And then they started developing into songs about, you know, what’s next? A lot of existential pondering – everything that happened in that last six months was on brand with what everyone was going through in the world.
‘Towards the end, the collection steers away from that heartbreak. At a certain point I started writing songs about my struggle with what I call ‘home’. That struggle to discern what is home for me. Tonight, on Autumn Ruminations, is the first song I wrote when I got to London and is about finding peace, even when you’re sleeping oceans away from home.
‘And one album is almost entirely dedicated to my pets – I’ll let you guess which one that is. ‘The final album is Love to Give, which deals with the search for meaningfulness, appreciation and gratitude; new beginnings.’
Listen to “Yeti Demos 2”, “Autumn Ruminations”, “Fool”, and “Love to Give” now, stream them on Apple Music and connect with Cooper Chasse on his social media. Also, be on the lookout for our exclusive interview with Cooper, as well as our in-depth review of the EPs, coming soon.