A.S.M. - Fantasy Boyfriend (7")The first solo release from Alexandra Sauser Monnig of Mountain Man. Theres a patience in the little things. The arc of sticky summers brimming and eventually cooling, grasses overgrowing before being cut to stubs, creeks rushing to an eventual trickle, night skies growing darker before dawn breaks. In stillness and in presence, we can allow these archetypes to pervade our experience and teach us lessons as old as time and reflexive in every organisms

leaping from a pop music framework into the wilder unknown

Meath and Sanborn were two unexpected puzzle pieces fitting together with singular ease

and feels at home with the jagged edges of Cytrynowicz’s illustration

Though Sylvan Esso very much remains a duo

on the plane from Durham to Los Angeles

Mills and Meath set out to steer clear of anything terrestrial

In present times

Psychic Hotline

making it a companion piece that could as easily live fully on its own

He added incisive percussion to a big-band version of Sylvan Esso and buoyed the svelte stoner soul of Gayngs

TJ Maiani contributes his persistent drums to “Your Reality” and “Alarm

to relay what we saw