After a 13-year break from releasing music as Coconut Data, Jason Schwartzman has returned to his indie rock undertaking, hinting that new music is on the way in which.
The delicate reveal of the undertaking’s revival was made final month, when Schwartzman’s buddy and collaborator, Ben Kweller, introduced his upcoming album, Cowl the Mirrors, with Coconut Data listed as a featured artist on the tracklist.
Then, earlier this week, Schwartzman made like Bob Dylan and joined TikTok, adopting the username @coconutrecordsofficial and posting movies that includes outdated Coconut Data songs and hashtags like #jasonschwartzman and #nostalgiacore.
One video exhibits Schwartzman and Kweller on a FaceTime name, with the caption “Writing new Coconut Data on FaceTime be like.” One other video confirmed a nonetheless picture of the 2 collectively, with overlaid textual content studying, “Me and my buddy Ben are writing and recording and we realized that if we get 1,000 followers we will go stay on TikTok so please inform your mates so we will activate the camz after we make the jamz.”
Watch a few of the TikToks beneath.
The place that is all main isn’t precisely clear but (new track? New album?), but when any new music does certainly arrive beneath the Coconut Data moniker, it should mark the primary launch from the undertaking for the reason that 2012 authentic rating to Goats. Previous to that, Coconut Data launched two albums: 2007’s Nighttiming and 2009’s Davy.
In different Schwartzman information, he appeared in a number of of essentially the most notable movies of 2024, together with Megalopolis, Queer, Pavements, and The Final Showgirl, the latter of which was produced by his brother, Robert Schwartzman.
@coconutrecordsofficial public service announcement 😘 #coconutrecords #jasonschwartzman #benkweller #newmusic
♬ Is This Sound Okay? – Coconut Data
@coconutrecordsofficial It hurts so deep inside after I can’t discover the chord 💔 #songwriting #coconutrecords #jasonschwartzman #benkweller #beachboys #denniswilson #foreversong #perpetually
♬ Ceaselessly by The Seashore Boys – Coconutrecords