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The weight that comes with assigning a name to a piece of sound that refuses to sit neatly within the boxes the global music industry has spent decades building to contain and categorize creative work is rarely felt as acutely as it is when encountering a work that leans into the unclassifiable space that exists between the genres most listeners have come to rely on to orient their engagement with new music. Cowboys Don’t Cry, the work credited to Oliver Tree and rooted in the creative landscape of France, exists firmly within that uncategorizable space, marked not by the limits of any preexisting genre but by the freedom that comes with stepping outside of the expectations that come with identifying as part of any established creative lineage, any set of rules that dictate what a work of recorded sound can or should be.
