Francesco Amoroso per TRISTE©

Over almost three decades of collaboration, Karl Smith and Pete Cohen have continued to move through the seasons of life with the same quiet grace that has always shaped their music. From their days as Sodastream -an emblem of intimate, melancholic acoustic pop- to the present, the duo has learned to balance family, work, and creative urgency without ever losing their instinct for honest songwriting. Returning now as Smith & Cohen, they offer Half Life: an album that feels like a patient reflection on time passing, on growing older, and on the fragile value of everyday things. Letting go of the Sodastream name was not a rupture but a natural evolution -an act of awareness by two musicians who have always dared to sing their truth. And while the hallmarks of their sound remain -the warm double bass, the understated guitar, the soft melancholy woven through every line- the music here breathes differently. It is more spacious, more open, shaped by fewer collaborators and by the silences and distances that life inevitably introduces.