Cockahoop

Label: Blanco Y Negro Records/WMI
Release date: 26 Dec 2005
Running length: 13 tracks
Running time: 34:24

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Chardonnay	3:04	3,007
2	Caught In The Middle	3:11	2,514
3	Louisiana	2:21	2,156
4	Weightless Again	3:01	2,017
5	Only A Fool	2:47	2,129
6	La Bague	0:40	1,805
7	Miller of Hooterville	0:46	344
8	Ocean	2:05	2,094
9	Arglwydd Dyma Fi	3:34	2,034
10	If You're Lookin' For Love	2:56	1,669
11	The Good in Goodbye	3:03	1,748
12	Gypsy Song	3:48	1,592
13	All My Trials	3:08	1,645

About this album

A major departure for Cerys Matthews and, in some ways, a since un-repeated one.
Following the split with Catatonia, Matthews moved to Tennessee and began to record the album with Bucky Baxter producing.
Inspired by Blue grass, Welsh Hymns, French folk and the Blues. The album declared Cerys Matthews’ encyclopaedic knowledge of musical history and an ability to experiment freely with genres and language. The tone of the album was emphatically different from her previous work with catatonia.
Using her typically husky vocals in an untypical way to signify fragility and emphasise the haunting quality of many of the albums songs.