Louis Cole Shares “Not Needed Anymore”

Louis Cole shares new video for “Not Needed Anymore.” The track is off the artist's forthcoming release Quality Over Opinion, out 10/14

Louis Cole has returned with a song and video, for “Not Needed Anymore.” The track, is the latest ahead of his new LP Quality Over Opinion, which drops on October 14th, via Brainfeeder and previous singles “Let It Happen” and “I’m Tight.”

Quality Over Opinion was written, performed and produced by Cole, in his modest home studio, contributors innclude, Genevieve Artadi (“my no.1 music collaborator”); saxophonist Sam Gendel – Cole’s friend for 17 years; pianist Chris Fishman; Nate Wood from the band Kneebody; Marlon Mackey (“a pillar of the Bakersfield music scene”); and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. “This album is a representation of me trying to make the best, most powerful and listenable music I can. For myself and also others,” he says.

Cole, recently sold out two shows at EartH Hackney (1k cap) in London during his last UK tour. He has also appeared at North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Rock En Seine, Jazz a Vienne, Jazz à la Villette, Wonderfruit, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Maiden Voyage and more. Last year Louis embarked on his biggest collaboration to date with the Grammy-winning Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley, for a string of shows in the Netherlands, with more to come in 2023.

Louis Cole
Quality Over Opinion
Tracklisting
Brainfeeder

1. Quality Over Opinion
2. Dead Inside Shuffle
3. Not Needed Anymore
4. Shallow Laughter
5. Bitches (feat. Sam Gendel)
6. Message (feat. Chris Fishman & Nate Wood)
7. Failing in a Cool Way
8. Disappear
9. I’m Tight
10. True Love
11. Planet X
12. Let Me Snack (feat. Marlon Mackey)
13. Forgetting
14. Park Your Car on my Face
15. Don’t Care (feat. Genevieve Artadi)
16. Laughing in her Sleep
17. Outer Moat Behavior
18. When (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel)
19. Let it Happen
20. Little Piano

Louis Cole 2022 Tour Dates

19 Oct — August Hall, San Francisco, CA*
20 Oct — Sessions Music Hall, Eugene OR
21 Oct — Revolution Hall, Portland, OR
22 Oct — Earshot Jazz at The Town Hall, Seattle, WA
23 Oct — Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA*
5 Dec — Nagoya Club Quattro, Nagoya, JP^
6 Dec — Umeda Club Quattro, Osaka, JP^
7 Dec — Shibuya O-East, Tokyo, JP^

*with Genevieve Artadi
^Louis Cole Big Band show