{"id":7759,"date":"2026-10-08T20:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7759"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:39:00","slug":"cocojoey-cocojoeys-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7759","title":{"rendered":"Cocojoey &#8211; COCOJOEY&#8217;S WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7760\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Cocojoeys-World-1600x1600x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Cocojoeys-World-1600x1600x300.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Cocojoeys-World-1600x1600x300-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Cocojoeys-World-1600x1600x300-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Cocojoeys-World-1600x1600x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Cocojoeys-World-1600x1600x300-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Cocojoeys-World-1600x1600x300-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">To be re-released on cassette, CD, and t-shirt w\/ DL code on November 6th, 2026. Cassette is a C44 &#8211; transparent fluorescent pink cassette with black imprints. Packaged with a 2-sided 4-panel J-card. CD packaged in a 4-panel digipak. Front artwork by Julianne Griepp and design by HausMo Max and Cocojoey.<br \/>\nThis is the catalog page with album information and artwork. To purchase, head to our <a href=\"http:\/\/hausumountain.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3656349175\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cocojoey.bandcamp.com\/album\/cocojoeys-world\">COCOJOEY&#8217;S WORLD by Cocojoey<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> joined the Hausu Mountain family with their 2025 album <\/span><em><strong>STARS<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it turns out that they had already created their own world. <\/span><em><strong>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that is (caps necessary), and we\u2019re all living in it. Chicago-based songwriter \/ producer \/ multi-instrumentalist <\/span><strong>Joey Meland<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s debut under the <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moniker originally hit the streets in October, 2022 as a self-released digital \/ tape album with subsequent tiny editions to follow on various formats, all of which are nestled comfortably in fans\u2019 homes and not to be found even on resale markets. Hausu Mountain is delighted to return <\/span><em><strong>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the physical world with a proper tape \/ CD reissue that features a bonus track and updated artwork \/ packaging from HausMo honcho Max Allison. The album demonstrates that Meland\u2019s spellbinding omni-genre production style, hyper-intricate vocal and keyboard performances, and earworm hook sensibilities were all there from the jump &#8211; a culmination of a lifetime of musical exploration and personal growth that manifests in grand fashion from the project\u2019s earliest material. Ecstatic pop melodies collide with brutal death metal breakdowns. Operatic arias float over 16-bit video game fantasias. Piano solos dance through bossa nova arrangements and spiral into Meshuggah-esque prog denouements. <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s toolkit is bottomless and they apply everything in their brain, their hands, and their heart to pursue unfettered self-expression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many years before <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> emerged as Meland\u2019s primary project, they participated in the music scenes of their native Madison, WI, through college in Champaign-Urbana, IL, and into their life in Chicago with projects of various stylistic stripes, including black metal bands as a teen (as captured on the <\/span><em><strong>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interlude appropriately titled \u201cmiddle school black metal\u201d), funk and indie rock bands as a young adult, and solo experimental\/noise projects throughout. Adept at keyboards, guitar, drums, and all manner of electronics, Meland feels like they often served as the missing link within other people\u2019s bands in these earlier era(s), taking on instruments as needed and contributing their talents to fulfill their bandmates\u2019 ambitions. In their work as <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Meland traces their own solo path from songwriting to production to performance, tapping into a reservoir of experience gained not only from other collaborations but from years spent teaching music at a professional level. They learned they could do it all on their own, and found complete freedom in burrowing into new ideas with no restrictions on genre and no limit to the complexity of their songwriting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hits as a tale of liberation through music and the process of developing trust in oneself, as Meland\u2019s lyrics lay out a personal quest to overcome hardships both external and internal: scrapping through life in Chicago as a musician \/ music teacher while grappling with chronic physical conditions that threaten to derail their momentum. <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> presents these problems in both their lyrics and their production with an ever-present outlook of humor and hope. They frame \u201cCOCOJOEY\u2019S CAVE\u201d as an exploration of agoraphobia in social settings with an upcoming scheduled hospital visit looming over their mood, while the accompanying dungeon-synth \/ blastbeat metal sonics and their sweetly pitched-up vocal melodies contrasted with ferocious howls set the scene for a \u201ctraveler with a lantern [to] explore [their] cave.\u201d What better way to strip away the fear associated with an upcoming colonoscopy? By the end of the album, with the mantra of \u201cOUT THERE\u201d assuring us that \u201cwe\u2019re ephemeral anyway,\u201d we have borne witness to Meland\u2019s anxieties and well-wishes for their future, with each moment accompanied by production that illuminates the emotions of their creator in lockstep with their lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the wake of the original release of <\/span><em><strong>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/strong><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meland hit the ground running. Through a continuous schedule of local Chicago shows and a regimen of DIY touring that finds them on the road across the US every few months, they\u2019ve enraptured a dedicated fanbase eager to fall down the rabbit hole with each new song that Meland introduces to the setlist &#8211; which still features <\/span><em><strong>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">classics that hit as hard as ever. As sublime case studies in narrative tension and sudden turns in composition, these early <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> songs burst with unexpected climaxes and on-a-dime shifts in both directions of intensity that really get the crowd going in a live setting. Gnarly slam metal riffs with Meland barking like a hardcore frontperson could give way to whimsical keyboard interludes that evoke a stroll through a fairy forest grotto. What seems like a conventional pop song could split open into hyper-complex polymetric passages following time signatures that only their creator could comprehend. More than future <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">material, <\/span><em><strong>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">highlights breakbeats and drum &amp; bass production as a rhythmic starting point for each track\u2019s skyward trajectories, imbuing the album with a bright and fidgety energy that its composer aptly describes as \u201cWii-Sports-Core.\u201d In our minds\u2019 eyes, we\u2019re cruising through low-polygon waterscapes on jetskis or gazing at digital rocky island vistas from the green on the golf course. We get the feeling that <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has our pleasure as listeners in mind at all times, seeking out moments of tranquility or joy in equal measure with moments of catharsis and abandon. This philosophy is so in keeping with Hausu Mountain\u2019s ethos as a label that it feels like <\/span><em><strong>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has always been in the catalog. But now, it\u2019s official. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7761\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cassette-spread-view-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cassette-spread-view-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cassette-spread-view-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7748\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BEACH_YELLOW1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2232\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BEACH_YELLOW1.jpg 2232w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BEACH_YELLOW1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BEACH_YELLOW1-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BEACH_YELLOW1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BEACH_YELLOW1-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BEACH_YELLOW1-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BEACH_YELLOW1-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2232px) 100vw, 2232px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7763\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-CD-Array-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-CD-Array-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-CD-Array-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-CD-Array-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-CD-Array-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-CD-Array-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-CD-Array-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-CD-Array-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7762\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-Shirt-on-Hanger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-Shirt-on-Hanger.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-Shirt-on-Hanger-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-Shirt-on-Hanger-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-Shirt-on-Hanger-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-Shirt-on-Hanger-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoeys-World-Shirt-on-Hanger-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COCOJOEY&#039;S THEME (OFFICIAL VIDEO)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n9g4-h8jxGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"bbBANG (OFFICIAL VIDEO)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AxJ4rKPOn_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; To be re-released on cassette, CD, and t-shirt w\/ DL code on November 6th, 2026. Cassette is a C44 &#8211; transparent fluorescent pink cassette with black imprints. Packaged with a 2-sided 4-panel J-card. 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