OUT FRIDAY: LOUIS COLE NEW ALBUM QUALITY OVER OPINION 10/14 ON BRAINFEEDER

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LA maestro Louis Cole returns with his new album, Quality Over Opinion (Brainfeeder). The album was preceded by singles “Let It Happen”, “Not Needed Anymore”, “I’m Tight”, and “Dead Inside Shuffle”.

20 tracks deep, Quality Over Opinion was written, performed, and produced by Louis in his modest home studio with contributions from a handful of close friends, namely Genevieve Artadi (“my no.1 music collaborator”); saxophonist Sam Gendel – Cole’s friend for 17 years; pianist Chris Fishman; Nate Wood from the band Kneebody; Marlon Mackey; and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel.

The videos, too, largely came from Louis’s hand, including the 7-minute funk rocket and accompanying wild dance video for “I’m Tight,” directed and choreographed by the artist himself. Meanwhile, “Not Needed Anymore” shows his creative side in action, where you see Louis build an entire song himself.

“This album is a representation of me trying to make the best, most powerful and listenable music I can. For myself and also others,” says Louis. Accordingly, his touchstones for Quality Over Opinion include boundary-pushing composers such as Gustav Mahler and György Ligeti alongside jazz icons like Miles Davis, the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah, Morten Lauridsen (distinguished professor of music and American Choral Master) and Super Mario Kart. “There is no continuous thread of a story on this album, each song expresses its own moment in my life and time,” he explains. “I was inspired by joy, pain and the constant mission to pull something out of life around me”.