Louis Cole

Career After graduating from USC in 2009, Cole was encouraged by his friend Jack Conte to put music videos on YouTube, including one called "Bank Account", which showcased a split-screen of him playing keyboards, drums, and singing. In 2010, he released both his self-titled solo album and the debut album for Knower.

In 2019, Cole's "Doing the Thing" was the 80th-best-performing single on the Tokio Hot 100. In 2020, Cole wrote an exclusive song for Grand Theft Auto Online called "Planet X", which was added to the FlyLo FM radio station through The Cayo Perico Heist update. Knower's song "Fuck the Makeup, Skip the Shower" was previously featured on the same radio station. "Planet X" was later included in Cole's fourth studio album Quality Over Opinion, which was released on October 14, 2022 via Brainfeeder. Another single from the album, "Let it Happen", was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals in 2023, and the album as a whole was nominated for Best Alternative Jazz Album the following year.

It is speculated that Cole and saxophonist Sam Gendel are behind Clown Core, a surrealist musical duo of two anonymous clowns who blend grindcore, jazz, and electronic music. His work contains elements from a diverse range of music genres such as jazz, funk, pop, avant-garde, electronic, lo-fi (early) and grindcore (with Clown Core). Flying Lotus has also expressed admiration for Cole on Twitter, calling him "super inspirational" during the writing of his album Flamagra.

Reception Bob Mintzer has described Cole as "the paradigm for today's musician". Emma Roller of The Brick House Cooperative has described Cole as "a dopey yet cerebral jazz composer and percussionist who whaps out brain-meltingly complex beats with Terminator-like precision". Released: August 9, 2024 Label: Brainfeeder Format: CD, vinyl, digital download, streaming

With Knower

Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi (2010) Think Thoughts (2011) Let Go (2013) Life (2016) Knower Forever (2023)

With Clown Core

Clown Core (2010) Toilet (2018) Van (2020) 1234 (2021)

Live albums Title Album details LIVE 2019 Released: July 6, 2020 Label: Brainfeeder Format: Digital download, streaming

Extended plays Title Details Live Sesh and Xtra Songs Released: April 5, 2019 Label: Brainfeeder Format: Digital download, streaming

Singles As lead artist Title Year Album "Weird Part of the Night" 2016 Time "Bank Account" 2017 "Thinking" "Blimp" "Things" 2018 Time "Doing the Things" 2019 "Let It Happen" 2022 Quality Over Opinion "I'm Tight" "Not Needed Anymore" "Dead Inside Shuffle" "Things Will Fall Apart" 2024 Nothing "Life" "These Dreams are Killing Me" "nothing" As featured artist Title Year Album "The Grid Generation" 2023 The Lucky One

Production and songwriting These are writing and production credits for music outside of Knower, Clown Core, or his own solo work.

TitleYearArtistAlbumNotes "Padded Cell" 2015 Seal 7 Co-writer 2020 Jacob Mann 106 Mastered

Other appearances TitleYearCredited artist(s)Album "Bus in These Streets" 2016 Thundercat Drunk "Jameel's Space Ride" 2018 Jacob Mann Big Band Greatest Hits, Vol 2 "Tonight" 2018 Sam Wilkes Wilkes "Descending" "It Gets Funkier IV" Vulfpeck Hill Climber "Edge of the Cliff" 2020 Genevieve Artadi Dizzy Strange Summer "Hope Song" "Hits!" Henry Solomon and Logan Kane 2023 Genevieve Artadi Forever Forever "Mad Hope" Gen Hoshino Lighthouse "The End of Time" 2025 Darren Korb Hades II Original Soundtrack"—" denotes he wasn't on one song, but an entire album.