The Death Of Cool

‘The Death of Cool is coming May 22nd, 2026

Produced by Platinum-Album artist Jimbo Mathus, engineered & mixed by Grammy Award-Winning Mike Napolitano, & featuring an array of New Orleans, Mississippi & Muscle Shoals musical royalty.

This 10 song assemblage surges through a century of fringe movements, lucid dreams, & hipster antics, tearing at the hem of conventional social values & norms, even as rebellions themselves become mainstream.

Featuring Preservation Hall’s Wendell & Caroline Brunious, Charlie Halloran & Brent Rose, Kirk ‘Bowie’ Russell, Eric Ambel & much of the cast of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, ‘The Death of Cool’ plays big horn arrangements & deep south electric guitars, AND upright bass, against Daphne’s dark poetry to create the danceable, swampy torch folk we know & love.

These songs cut ties with youthfully overwrought hero worship of counterculture, from iconoclasts to dilettantes, globe-sweeping fads to brutal indifference. The Death of Cool calls out the Othering at the heart of modern cynicism, drawing the listener back to softer times of wonder, elbowing out space for authentic connection and hope.