{"product_id":"morphine-cocoon-indie-exclusive-opaque-natural-vinyl","title":"Morphine - Cocoon (Indie Exclusive Opaque Natural Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqIfuVG4xUo?controls=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndie Exclusive Opaque Natural Vinyl LP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Indie Exclusive edition of Cocoon presses Morphine's eight-song album on a single LP in opaque natural vinyl for Partisan Records. The album's liner notes were written by Hanif Abdurraqib.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocoon comes from sessions in late 1998 and 1999, when Mark Sandman worked with producers Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade at his home studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kolderie and Slade had already produced three Morphine albums: Good, Cure For Pain and Yes. The new songs brought piano and acoustic guitar in alongside the trio's two-string slide bass, saxophone and drums, the sound the band called \"low rock.\" Amid pressure from DreamWorks and friction with Kolderie, Sandman shelved the material and self-produced the songs that became The Night, released in 2000. Sandman died of a heart attack on stage during a concert in Italy in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tapes sat untouched for more than two decades. In 2023 Sandman's life partner and Morphine estate manager Sabine Hrechdakian began working with Kolderie to digitize them. \"I was astounded by the sound of the tracks when I put them up at the studio where we transferred them,\" Kolderie has said. He mixed the album, and saxophonist Dana Colley recorded new parts with him in early 2026. Hrechdakian has said the lyrics \"speak to the hardship of being away from loved ones while the band was on tour and the joys of homecoming,\" with a thread of space travel running through the album. A version of the title track first appeared on the 2004 compilation Sandbox: The Music Of Mark Sandman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front cover is a photograph Sandman took of Hrechdakian's reflection in a train window on the way to Antwerp in 1998. The back pairs it with an image of Sandman photographing himself in a mirror at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTomorrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWig\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpaceman Charm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJustine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoons of Jupiter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCocoon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePretty Face\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*** Indie Exclusive ***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 720841306733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Partisan Records\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12.4.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Partisan Records","offers":[{"title":"NEW \/ NEW","offer_id":50528545407134,"sku":"EVP-69D98FD4-NEW-NEW-NONE0000","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8801\/1422\/files\/4537512-3698695_13109d15-ddd5-43c1-a361-2dd528a8f3c7.jpg?v=1792134530","url":"https:\/\/evergreenvinyl.com\/products\/morphine-cocoon-indie-exclusive-opaque-natural-vinyl","provider":"Evergreen Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}