{"id":626317,"date":"2026-09-24T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626317\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:30:10","slug":"morphine-plan-cocoon-archival-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626317\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphine Plan ‘Cocoon’ Archival Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA new album from Morphine<\/a> built from archival recordings of previously unreleased songs titled Cocoon will arrive Dec. 4. The instantly recognizable alt-rock group, whose lead instrumentation included baritone sax and two-string fretless bass, disbanded after the 1999 death of vocalist-bassist Mark Sandman<\/a>. But they recorded Cocoon\u2019s music for the album in 1998 with producers Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade in sessions that preceded those for their final album, 2000\u2019s The Night. Kolderie worked with Sandman\u2019s life partner, Sabine Hrechdakian, to transfer and remix the tapes in 2023. Saxophonist Dana Colley also added new sax parts to three of the album\u2019s songs.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe title track, released Thursday, opens with baritone sax dominating a slow-dripping groove that paves the way for Sandman\u2019s lyrics: \u201cCome on in to my cocoon, no one comes in except for you.\u201d The song is jazzy and evocative of late nights in smoky clubs. The group\u2019s trademark sense of space, room for the sax, Sandman\u2019s voice, and ear candy like acoustic guitar, echoey cymbals, and distant piano, and their uniquely chill sense of melody take cente rstage on the song.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMark loved performing and traveling the world, but he also loved to come home and cocoon,\u201d Hrechdakian said in a statement. \u201cIt was our home and his studio, so there was always music happening, tape running, friends dropping by at all hours, lots of cooking. The lyrics speak to the hardship of being away from loved ones while the band was on tour and the joys of homecoming. There\u2019s also this thread of space travel that runs through the album, so I imagine the cocoon as a kind of spaceship for two who leave the world and return to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cocoon sessions found Morphine playing with different instrumentation, including piano and drumming from friends and collaborators. But Sandman abandoned the sessions when he refocused the band for what would become The Night.<\/p>\n

\n\tSongs on Cocoon came out in different forms on bootlegs and the 2004 compilation, Sandbox, but this release presents them differently. \u201cComing back to these recordings years later was a surreal experience,\u201d Colley said of adding new parts to the songs. \u201cIt was like having one foot in the past and one in the present, with my saxophone bridging the gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn the decade between Morphine\u2019s foundation and Sandman\u2019s death, the group released four albums (not counting The Night, which came out posthumously). Their 1993 album, Cure for Pain, became an indie hit thanks to college radio embracing the title track, \u201cBuena,\u201d and \u201cThursday.\u201d Their songs were featured in the movie Spanking the Monkey and, more recently, the TV series Beef and Euphoria.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe release also features never-before-published photos and liner notes by essayist Hanif Abdurraqib.<\/p>\n

\n\tCocoon Track List
1. \u201cTomorrow\u201d
2. \u201cWig\u201d
3. \u201cPatience\u201d
4. \u201cSpaceman Charm\u201d
5. \u201cJustine\u201d
6. \u201cMoons of Jupiter\u201d
7. \u201cCocoon\u201d
8. \u201cPretty Face\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new album from Morphine built from archival recordings of previously unreleased songs titled Cocoon will arrive Dec.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,138805,409],"class_list":["post-626317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-morphine","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}