Miles Cobalt

Modern lounge jazz with midnight-bar mood. Walking upright bass, brushed kit, Rhodes electric piano, muted trumpet swells, occasional strings. Influenced by Sinatra's phrasing, Chet Baker's bruised intimacy, Norah Jones' restraint, Gregory Porter's gravity, Father John Misty's writerly sleaze. Miles is an unreliable narrator: he's often the one in the wrong in his own songs, and he knows it. Lyrics are vignettes built from specific objects, not moods - a wedding ring left on a hotel nightstand, a voicemail not returned, the wrong cab home. Avoid: smoke, neon, rain, Manhattan, last trains. Standard 32-bar AABA or jazz verse-chorus; ii-V-I and tritone-sub turnarounds. No rap, no drops.