**Itasca: Imitation of War – Out Now**

Photo by Logan White.

I knew the road to my El Dorado
but I was caught looking at the weeds

I reckon we’ve all known that road to El Dorado, or we’ve thought so.

Itasca‘s stunning new album Imitation of War, replete with such elliptical episodes, is out today, streaming and in shops worldwide. Her first release in nearly five years, it’s truly one of the most sheerly lovely records we’ve released, and I hope you’ll spend some time with it and its subtle but deep charms. Its magnetism grows with time.

To mark the occasion, we’re offering 25% off Itasca’s previous two records, Spring and Open to Chance, through Feb. 18, on our website only, with coupon code EASYSPIRIT (the sprawling centerpiece of Imitation of War, which must be heard to be believed).

See below for details and live dates. Read more about the album here.

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On her third record with Paradise of Bachelors, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, leanest, and most smolderingly electric guitar-forward recordings of Cohen’s deepening catalog.

25% Off Itasca’s PoB Back Catalog with Code EASYSPIRIT

Watch/Stream “Imitation of War”

Watch/Stream “Milk”

Acknowledgments

Kayla Cohen’s latest as Itasca quests out from her folk roots to a landscape of dusky dream-rock odysseys, led by lyrics that draw on personal and cultural mythologies and vocals that breach the other side. Wand’s Robbie Cody co-produced the record with the Los Angeles–based songwriter, conjuring sound worlds as vast and mystifying as ancient caves. – Pitchfork

Switching guitars opens her songs up considerably, but Cohen maintains the intimacy and intelligence that have always been her signature … One to get lost in … painted in her soft, burnt umber voice and shivery guitar. – Uncut

A wonderful piece of work, characterized by beautiful guitar textures and Cohen’s stunning vocals. – Record Collector

There’s a gentle, instinctive airiness at the heart of Itasca’s music—Kayla Cohen’s vocals are enveloping, the overall feel is that of exquisite lightness … a slice of elegant folk evolved into electric dreaminess. – Shindig!

A significant progression … such a pleasure to hear. – The Vinyl District

While the album is perhaps the darkest and most challenging record in Cohen’s oeuvre, it’s also one of the most rewarding pieces of music she’s made … Where previous albums felt sun flecked, Imitation of War is more like a plume of smoke: still airborne, but darker and heavier … Music that is as magnetic as it is elusive. – Undrcurrents