Cole Scheifele weaves evocative folk indie on "Company Clothes"

 

"dust on the counter and coffee's all cold..."

Most of us, at one time or another, have been a cog within a big wheel. For that wheel to work well and not wobble, the cogs have to be all spaced out orderly and all be the same shape. Stand out to much and things go awry, at least that is what most companies mantra dictates. I suppose you lose a bit of yourself within the constructs, the confinements of most corporations. I certainly felt that in my life more than once. Boulder, Colorado folk singer-songwriter, Cole Scheifele, speaks to that on "Company Clothes" a down to earth track off of his upcoming album, "The Hideaways". On the track with upfront acoustic guitar rhythms and Scheifele's wonderful croon. His voice fits his songs like a weathered guitar case with lush burgundy velveteen holds a guitar. Scheifele waxes poetic even when the undercurrent might run dour "the trees are drunk and stumbling they're comming disrobed and I'm stuck here waiting, these company clothes". It is horrible to not be yourself in your workaday world, not comfortable in your own skin or you company clothes. If Cole Scheifele's songs were clothes they would be constructed of natural fabrics, provide comfort over fashion, and hug you while you move, maybe rub you the wrong way from time to time but over time feel more and more like a deeply wound friend.

-Robb Donker Curtius





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Colorado folk artist Cole Scheifele has released “Company Clothes,” the third single off his upcoming album, The Hideaways. Premiering on Country Evolution, Scheifele sings about feeling trapped and stuck in the routine of a job that is unfulfilling or not true to who we are, creating a character that most of us can identify with to some extent. The song itself is charming, gentle, and lush; at times breaking open into a larger moment, it is almost a reflection of how these feelings work. “They sort of gnaw at us quietly and we bury them and then they break open and get real big and then they soften again,” says Scheifele.

Scheifele does what he does best, yet again, and explores very real and universal feelings in the most honest way he possibly could. He taps into exactly how the listener feels stuck in a cycle of dissatisfaction and frustration as they compare how friends have “found new cities” and maybe the listener should have tried harder to do something more with their life. Scheifele identifies that “it's only when we learn that our pasts don't define us as we are now that we can learn from those things and really grow and change,” and though many of the sentiments addressed are not exactly comforting, Scheifele does manage to slide some sort of hope across the table to the listener.


Cole Scheifele, singer songwriter, folk, folk indie, Boulder, Colorado, "The Hideaways" album, single "Company Clothes", acoustic, orchestrated folk