Tim Cohen is widely recognized for the prolific and eclectic nature of his work, and has released albums in genres ranging from Hip-Hop to psychedelic-folk. He has stated in several interviews that he grew up listening almost exclusively to Hip-Hop, and has recorded and performed songs in the genre both solo and in groups, The Latter and The Forest Fires Collective. His interest in other musical genres increased while attending college at
Wesleyan University. After college, he moved to San Francisco where he recorded and released albums with bassist Evan Martin and several others under the names Hattattak and Feller Quentin. Martin and Cohen later formed
Black Fiction, a collective of San Francisco musicians centered around the record store that Cohen worked for at the time,
Amoeba Music. Tim Cohen is most well known for his work as the lead singer and co-writer in the psych-garage outfit,
The Fresh & Onlys, formed with bassist Shayde Sartin after the break-up of Black Fiction. The Fresh and Onlys have released numerous 7’’s, EP’s, and LP’s on labels such as
Sacred Bones,
Captured Tracks,
Woodsist, and
In The Red, and toured extensively in the United States and Western Europe. In 2009 he released
Go To Hell, a solo black metal album, under the guise, Amocoma.
Jon Bernson of San Francisco band Exrays and Cohen record and perform together as Window Twins. Tim Cohen has recorded four solo LP’s and one EP. The first,
The Two Sides of Tim Cohen was released in 2009 and was a split release by San Francisco labels Empty Cellar and Secret Seven. Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks released the follow-up, 2010’s
Laugh Tracks, along with 2011’s
Tim Cohen’s Magic Trick and its accompanying EP,
Bad Blood. Later that year, Cohen returned to Empty Cellar to release
The Glad Birth of Love, a four-song, 43 minute LP under his new moniker, Magic Trick. In August 2016 Magic Trick released the album ''Other Man's Blues'' that also featured James Kim, Alicia Van Heuvel, and Noelle Cahill. and all of his solo works. ==Visual art==