{"id":7313,"date":"2025-04-23T21:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:16:27","slug":"cocojoey-stars-new-artist-in-the-hausmo-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7313","title":{"rendered":"Cocojoey &#8211; STARS &#8211; new artist in the HausMo family!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>We&#8217;re so thrilled to announce a new addition to the Hausu Mountain roster &#8211; please welcome <strong>Cocojoey<\/strong> with open arms and a tunnel of high fives.<\/h5>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h5>ANNOUNCING: <strong>Cocojoey &#8211; <em>STARS<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; coming out on June 20th on CD, cassette, and digitally&#8230; as well as various merch options with download codes.<\/h5>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3539887571\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/tracklist=false\/tracks=2896915423\/esig=94f5e0b0c82ef5ed8e303c6b64ef1d5f\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cocojoey.bandcamp.com\/album\/stars\">STARS by Cocojoey<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago-based composer\/producer Joey Meland makes music under the moniker <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Treating genre conventions and ostensible barriers between disparate musical vocabularies like playthings to gleefully smash and reshape at will, Meland channels decades of experience as a polymathic professional musician adept in styles like metal, jazz, synthpop, and experimental sound design into their infinitely combinatory compositions. <\/span><strong><em>STARS<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, their first album on Hausu Mountain, follows the self-released <\/span><strong><em>COCOJOEY\u2019S WORLD<\/em><\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2022) with a spellbinding burst of heart-on-sleeve self-expression. The album finds <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">indulging their most adventurous impulses in production and technical instrumental performance, launching into a constantly morphing program that contrasts day-glo earworm hooks against cathartic moments of screaming intensity. Describing their work as an outlet to navigate difficult emotions and negative experiences through overwhelming bursts of absurdity, Meland\u2019s music exudes warmth and finger-wagging mischief as it exhumes the depths of their psyche with the pure-hearted goal of making their audience smile \u2014 when those listening find a chance to breathe within the ecstatic overstimulation.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can read even more about the album <a href=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7280\">HERE<\/a> and head over to the Bandcamp page in the embed above or <a href=\"https:\/\/cocojoey.bandcamp.com\/album\/stars\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re so thrilled to announce a new addition to the Hausu Mountain roster &#8211; please welcome Cocojoey with open arms and a tunnel of high fives. ANNOUNCING: Cocojoey &#8211; STARS &#8211; coming out on June 20th on CD, cassette, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7313\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7315,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions\/7315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}