MOUNTAINHOOD - 'THE BOAT MAKERS DAUGHTER'

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• BBR05 - 12"

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The Boat‐Maker's Daughter is a record about transition and transformation. Michael Hilde, the man and mind behind Mountainhood, recorded these songs in New York City at a time when Christian radio was becoming an influence in his life. Many of the broadcasts that influenced these songs revolved around Revelations, while many of Hilde's friends began discussing an impending environmental apocalypse. There is a direct philosophical correlation between these ill‐boding prophecies and this surprisingly uplifting album. The Boat‐Maker's Daughter is an expression of total breakage from all prior forms of thought and action‐‐your parents, your government, your faith‐‐and blazing a new path through doomsday to the other side. The songs range from the quiet, fragile, and distant "Geodesic Dome, Oregon" to the anthemic folk sing‐along of "Jaine," one of the most accessible songs in the Mountainhood catalog. With The Boat‐Maker's Daughter, Mountainhood has transformed and shed much of the tape hiss that defined his earlier recordings, and let these very special songs of rapture shine through. This is not only a singular release for Hilde, but for the entire psych‐folk genre.

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? The follow up to releases on Time‐Lag, Important Records, and Blackest
Rainbow.
? ?This is introverted music played as the blues should be,? ‐ Foxy Digitalis
? ?A blend of delicate Banhart‐esque rusticity, 1960s‐era transcendental
instrumentals, and modern‐day home‐recorded drone experimentalism,? SF
Bay Guardian

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LOWER DENS - 'BATMAN / DEAR BETTY BABY'

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• GONG18 - 7"

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This single includes two amazingly well articulated moments from America's newest sweethearts, Baltimore's Lower Dens. "Batman" is one of the most arresting songs from the recordings that yielded the heralded and regaled Twin-Hand Movement album. The band waited until just the right moment to unleash this crystalline piece of pop perfection. Ending in a sweet buzz of humming, ringing guitars, the song is over before you know it? Feel free to pause and repeat. On the flip, Lower Dens demonstrate a different, equally winning approach on their suitably elegant reading of Mayo Thompson's paean "Dear Betty Baby"-over five minutes of majesty and mood. These two songs complement and build perfectly on the sound of Twin-Hand Movement.

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