Kevin Bronson on November 13th, 2019

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Back when Josh da Costa and Jamen Whitelock first started their experimental pop project CMON (an acronym for Confusing Mix of Nations), da Costa said, “It’s as if our band fell asleep and this is the dream it’s having.”

Well, dream on.

CMON, formed from the ashes of Regal Degal (who released albums in 2010 and ’12), has signed to Mexican Summer, with plans to issue a full-length next year.

With the news comes the new song “Coo,” whose strangely narcotic groove gives the feeling that you’ve arrived late to a party in a smoke-filled room. But, as da Costa sings, “Everybody is coo.”

Geneva Jacuzzi, who worked with the duo last year on “Celluloid,” directs the video. ““Coo’ was the first track we made together that marked a real departure from our old band Regal Degal into what would become CMON, so we’re happy to celebrate it with a fun video,” da Costa says. “We’re also really happy to have worked with Geneva again — making a video free from narrative and focused on mood and performance as well as creative editing suits a song that is less about thinking and more about feeling. It’s time to get wavy.”

||| Watch: The video for “Coo”