Music / Cosmo Sheldrake

Cosmo Sheldrake is an English Baroque Pop musician. He has multiple notable relatives, including his parents, the parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake and voice teacher Jill Purce, and his brother Merlin Sheldrake, a famous biologist. His music often features Word Salad Lyrics or are related to nature.

Studio album discography:

• 2018 - The Much Much How How and I
• 2020 - Wake Up Calls

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Tropes:

• Animal Motif:
  • Various (fictional and highly fantastical) fishes feature frequently and prominently in the album art and music videos for The Much Much How How and I.
  • Birds appear frequently:
    • The EP album art for Pelicans We is a pelican's head and chest in front of a blue background.
    • Birdsong features frequently as background noise in his music, with the songs for the album Wake Up Calls entirely consisting of the songs of birds that have become endangered due to human activities.
• Baroque Pop: His music is mostly baroque pop as well as Indie Pop.
• Green Aesop: Plenty of his songs are clearly about human impact on the environment, and plenty more can be interpreted as such:
  • Solar Waltz is literally about the importance of pollinator insects:
    …And work they must, and work they shall
    For all the things to grow
    For if they don't, as time, she knows
    They'd wither on the bough…
  • Every song in the album Wake Up Calls is entirely composed from the songs of endangered birds.
  • Pliocene is frequently interpreted as being about the human attitude of ignoring climate change:
    …Here we go again, here we go again
    Here we go again, here we go again
    Hit the lights and leave the lid until it's over…
• Moon Rabbit: "The Moss" features the lyrics "But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?"
• Shout-Out:
  • "Come Along" mentions Heffalumps from Winnie the Pooh and the "Borogoves" and "Slithy toves" from Jabberwocky.
  • "The Moss" features shout-outs to many folktales and nursery rhymes, as well as the nonsense poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
    But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon,
    or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon,
    or she that ran up the mountains while whistling up a tune, and swapping songs with swallows while riding on a broom?
  • The entirety of the song Pelicans We is a shout-out, as the lyrics come from Edward Lear's nonsense poem Pelican Chorus.
• Word Salad Lyrics: His music often features surreal and nonsensical lyrics.

  Pliocene: Here come, go rummaging, oh where has your poor stomach been?

  Gone like the Pliocene, so temporary, got lost in between.

  Wriggle: Go down, let's go down, let's go down, don't ya wanna come down,

  and wriggle 'long, have a sing-along, put some pickles on, and play the Mellotron?

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