Itasca

Itasca: Open to Chance (PoB-030)

The music of L.A.-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kayla Cohen is mutable and multivalent, richly allusive of the hermetic worlds of private-press canyon-cult mystics and East Coast noiseniks alike. Her adept fingerstyle guitar work—nimble but unshowy, always at the service of framing her plaintively unspooling modal progressions and gorgeous, moonlit voice—centers these melancholy pastorales in a hazy, heat-mirage space equally suggestive of familiarity and distance, community and anomie. Itasca’s enchanting, acid folk-inflected PoB debut is also the first to feature a full band.

Itasca Joins the PoB Family.

We’re delighted to welcome Itasca, the musical project of Los Angeles-based guitarist and songwriter Kayla Cohen, to the PoB roster. Stay tuned for more details on a new album to be released in late 2016. In the meantime, Itasca will be touring the U.S. this May. “This feeling that we, as listeners, have been granted access into Itasca’s private inner sanctum is what helps give [Cohen’s music] its quiet gravity.” – Pitchfork