Skip to main content

Maverick Ad

Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Cover Stories
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Legacy Awards
  • Past Covers
  • Weekly Archive
British Singer-Songwriter Suzanne Cook Tells the Stormy, Cinematic Story of a Relationship Wearing Thin on “Waking Dream”

Breadcrumb

  • Home
  • British Singer-Songwriter Suzanne Cook Tells the Stormy, Cinematic Story of a Relationship Wearing Thin on “Waking Dream”
Suzanne Cook
Fri Jul 14, 2023
Cashbox Canada

British singer-songwriter Suzanne Cook revives her folk-rock roots on her exploratory, moody new single “Waking Dream” – available now. Narrating the story of an ageing relationship that’s worn to threadbare, the song combines an ambiguous melody with R.E.M. influences and soulful, wailing guitar for a song that’s an entire cinematic experience. Check it out on YouTube here:

I’m silent running, away from you
And the way we’re parting, it hurts me, too
And the best of reasons, lie with you
We lost our way, as lovers do

“It’s a love song about relationship that has worn thin,” Cook explains. “Perhaps this relationship was begun when the girl was still young, and she’s simply grown up and apart from her lover, who is too self-involved to notice the distance which is opening between them.”

Sonically, “Waking Dream,” the title song from Cook’s forthcoming album of the same name, evokes gray skies with occasional light poking through, thunder in its gorgeous guitar accents, and an internal twisting turmoil amid an outwardly cozy home. Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/track/4ACzd6exbkzYttxue1fbR7

“The key to the melody is somewhat ambiguous, never confirmed as major, or minor – a mode that reflects the mood of the lyrics,” Cook describes. “It finishes with an unusual cadence where the rhythm section stops, unexpectedly, on the fourth-degree chord. This creates a sense of incompleteness – there are questions yet to be answered.”

Recorded by producer Mark Plati (Prince, David Bowie) at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, Cook and her band captured the event on video, which will be released in tandem with the song. “The level of support and professionalism of the Abbey Road staff was second to none,” she said. “The very history of the place is an inspiration.”

“Mark’s arrangement is dynamic,” she continued. “He finds oceans of space which allows the song to breathe. I love the fact that he uses live string players; before this album we had always used string pads or samples played on a keyboard.”

instagram.com/suzannevox1

Reviews
Album
Suzanne Cook
Month: Oct 2022
Julie Neff Photo Credit Afetivo Acervo Julie Neff’s Powerful Vocals And Harrowing Angelic Production Creates A Once-…
Juvenile Jury Montreal-Based Juvenile Jury Anxiously Gaze Inward on Grungy, ’90s-infused New…
KOBO Town JUNO Award-Winning KOBO Town Release “Carnival Of The Ghosts” Single And Video
Ron Kalmakoff Sunshine Coast's Singer-Songwriter Ron Kalmakoff Releases “Bells” From…
Theo Ogundipe Top Boy Star And Rising Artist Theo Ogundipe Returns With His Eclectic And…
Valentyna Toronto’s Valentyna Finds Her Strength Calling Out Doubters In New “…
Veranda Montréal-Based Acoustic Roots Duo Veranda Inspired by Mother Nature…
Jitensha Montreal’s Proto-Punksters Jitensha Releases New Single “Cou Cou”
Basset Toronto Acoustic Duo Basset Paint A Landscape Of Change In New Single “At My Feet”
D2UR Winnipeg’s D2UR Is The Right Band For “Right Now”
Moonfruits Moonfruits (Kaitlin Milroy and Alex Millaire) Release New Full Length Album…
The Frost Duo The Frost Duo Lead Us on a Slow, Slinky Journey of Seduction with’70s/’80s-…
Robert Connely Farr Robert Connely Farr Conjures Up the Spirits and Sounds of His Hometown Heroes with…
Jessica Rhaye & The Ramshackle Parade Jessica Rhaye & The Ramshackle Parade Offer Comfort from the Cold on…
Justin Saladin Justin Saladino – Honest Lies

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹ Previous
  • …
  • Page 80
  • Page 81
  • Page 82
  • Page 83
  • Current page 84
  • Page 85
  • Page 86
  • Page 87
  • Page 88
  • …
  • Next page Next ›
  • Last page Last »

CEO/PUBLISHER/EDITOR IN CHIEF
SANDY GRAHAM

email:sandygrahamemg@gmail.com 

Canadian Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Don Graham
email: dongrahamwriter@gmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Lisa Hartt
email: lisahartt87@hotmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada 
Michael Williams
email: greydread@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

International Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Malin Osth
email: malin@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Jonas Tancred
email: jonas@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - USA
Rob Durkee 
email: rockster2746@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Developer/Technical Support
Chris Wardman

email: info@chriswardman.com
website: chriswardman.com

Cashbox Cover Design and Graphic Artist
Jain McMillan

email: jainmcmillan@gmail.com

Contributing Photographer 
Tracey Savein - South Paw Productions
southpawproductions@rogers.com

 

 

 

Footer menu

  • Home
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Archive
  • Issue Archive
  • Past Covers