[Cover photo credit to Georgie Duddy]

Coco Smith has the idea of “triumph, despite” threaded through her music. That is particularly clear in her newest album, You Won’t Get My Message but You’ll Hear It. It is also Coco Smith’s personal belief that Folk-Rock’s defining characteristic as a genre is “triumph, despite.”

For this album, Smith and the album’s band (some original members, some not) “tackle what it’s like to feel this hopefulness in a vacuum.”

The songs on You Won’t Get My Message but You’ll Hear It are also in chronological order and each approach finds a way to inject hope into every song.