[2017-04-07] Cotton Mather "Wild Kingdom" (Star Apple Kingdom)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 3:29 pm

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It took 15 years for Cotton Mather to return with 2016's Death of The Cool released July 19th, 2016, the first collection of songs compiled from band leader Robert Harrison's ambitious, possibly impossible aim to write 64 songs, one for each hexagram of the I Ching, the ancient text which he refers to as "an extraordinary book about ordinary life."

Now, in what seems like the passing of just 15 minutes, Cotton Mather will release Wild Kingdom on April 7th, 2017. The album brings together another 11 tracks, following up the 11-song Death of The Cool, and the three-track Cotton Mather with Nicole Atkins EP released December 30th, 2016, that are both also a part of the I Ching song cycle.

To date, 30 of the Songs From The I Ching have been released.

"Wild Kingdom is more a change of season than scenery," Harrison states. "While I was writing the first half of the I Ching project, I tended to circle the songs with a requisite richness and gravity because I thought it important to do something for the first release in fifteen years that we never could have done before. Otherwise, what's the point - Relatively obscure indie cult band reunites to demonstrate that maybe going away the first time was just a fine idea? Uh, no thank you. You have to get better!"

Tracklist
1. The Cotton Mather Pledge
2. Fighting Through
3. High Society
4. Hijinks Dad
5. Better Than A Hit
6. King William
7. California
8. Girl With A Blue Guitar
9. It's Better Not To Be The King
10. The Army
11. I Volunteer

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XFSFWGP/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 3:41 pm

To complete the set, here are the previous two releases in Cottom Mather's I Ching series:

Death Of The Cool (CD)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GIRT860/?tag=imwan-20

Cotton Mather With Nicole Atkins (Digital EP)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N7DFCTK/?tag=imwan-20

[2017-04-07] Cotton Mather "Wild Kingdom" (Star Apple Kingdom)

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