Margaret Cho has at all times been singularly herself. It’s an vitality she brings to each her comedy and her music, a enterprise she first started in 2010 along with her first album. Cho Dependent, she tells Consequence, “was actually like nonetheless a comedy file,” however it was additionally a possibility to collaborate with artists she loves, together with Andrew Chicken, Fiona Apple, and Tegan and Sara. Since then, Cho has continued to discover her musical skills, most just lately along with her new album Fortunate Present (releasing February 14th).
For Fortunate Present, Cho did “a bulk of the writing of the music together with the lyrics. That made it a really particular new expertise. And a few of these songs are from about like 10 and 11 years in the past. So I’m actually grateful to lastly put them on the market.”
When speaking about her music, Cho appears like she belongs to the subgenre of comedians who make legit music, mentioning Neil Hamburger, Mae Martin, Whitmer Thomas, and the “unimaginable” Matt Berry. To not point out Steve Martin, “our patron saint,” she laughs. “Steve Martin might be the final word instance of comedians who make critical music. All of these comedians, in addition they have their separate identities as musicians.”
Cho additionally notes that there are performers on the market who mix either side seamlessly, like Reggie Watts and Donald Glover/Infantile Gambino. “I believe Tyler the Creator and Doechii additionally journey the road of comedy and music, as a result of their songs are so comedic that they’re nearly sketches. It’s actually attention-grabbing the way it’s previous simply music. It’s one thing a lot far more.”
All of it speaks to the methods during which music and comedy really feel linked. “Comedy is lyrical. It’s poetic. It’s rhythmic. There’s repetition,” Cho says. “And choruses and catchphrases or punchlines are actually the identical factor.”
In deciding on 13 comedians whose albums Cho thinks everybody ought to personal, Cho picked plenty of people that she is aware of or knew personally, as a longtime veteran of the comedy scene. Revisiting their work, she says, was a really emotional expertise, particularly when it got here to outdated buddies who’ve handed away lately: A number of instances, she in contrast the expertise of relistening to those albums to listening to “extinct birdsong.”
Provides Cho, “What a beautiful factor, that I can simply get my headphones on and be with them once more.” She extremely recommends listening to albums with headphones, by the way in which, even when a filmed model of their efficiency is obtainable. “There’s an intimacy that you may have with a comic after they’re proper in your ear. To ingest comedy in that manner, when you may hearken to the comic… It’s nearly such as you’re simply sitting with them.”
Please discover under Cho’s Crate Digging comedy album picks. “This was actually enjoyable,” she says. “These are my favourite information, and I’m so joyful to share them.”
Invoice Hicks — Rant in E-Minor and Arizona Bay
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Invoice was such an unimaginable man. I opened for him rather a lot, and he was a mentor, he was so thoughtful. He would at all times deep-throat the microphone, so he introduced his personal microphones to reveals in order that the openers, like myself, wouldn’t must cope with it. Covid protected, early on.
He was tremendous joyful, although you wouldn’t essentially understand it from the outset. He would roll as much as gigs [wearing] a postal employee’s hat that had bloodstains, as a result of at the moment, the shooters have been all postal staff. The concept of going postal, proper? It was simply his humorousness. So you’d suppose, effectively, this individual should have psychological sickness. However he was probably the most sane, well-adjusted, lovely man. Type, clever, considerate — but he acquired on stage and he was a monster, in one of the simplest ways. These albums actually seize him in his prime.
Stream Rant in E-Minor on Apple Music or Amazon Music | Purchase on Vinyl/CD
Stream Arizona Bay on Apple Music or Amazon Music | Purchase on Vinyl/CD