Seraphina Lotkhamnga on April 8th, 2011

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Sometimes opposites attract, and when it comes to the L.A. band Coyol, the vocals of members Céleigh Chapman and John Isaac Watters couldn’t differ more. However, songwriting is where the two have come together for strong funk-influenced folk-rock. With Watter’s avant-garde vibrato and Chapman’s bright raspy tone, the juxtaposition only gives this duo more charisma if not distinctiveness. Their track, “Pharmacist,” also follows a contrasting theme with its subject focusing on an area of shocking paradox. While living in a converted artist loft in downtown LA’s Skid Row, Watters wrote about his residence when he suffered from insomnia. Lyrics are intensified when he and Chapman both sing “Give me a pill to pop/I need a pharmacist/I need a surgeon for my mind/There’s all these images and video footage/Stuck in rapid, rapid rewind.”

||| Download: “Pharmacist”

||| Live: Coyol plays tonight at Lot 1 Cafe as part of the Charity:Water event.

Photo by Mariana Blanco