"Honeybee"'s the beautiful, brief opener on Mountain Man's new Sun Dog EP. The song should be familiar to fans of the band, but I love it and the collection's feeling of quiet transience: The five-song 10" offers 12 minutes of stripped-down "alternative recordings" of songs you'll find on the excellent Made The Harbor LP.The Vermont trio's meditative backwoods a cappella focuses on themes of the natural world -- those bees, a dog, animal tracks, wings, a chickadee -- but you also hear their own sweat and spilt milk. It's like joining them on their backporch.
The tracklist:
A1 "Honeybee"
A2 "Dog Song"
A3 "Animal Tracks"
B1 "Mouth Wings"
B2 "Soft Skin"
"Honeybee" live:
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Here's the different, previously posted Made The Harbor version of "Soft Skin."
The Sun Dog EP is out today via Underwater Peoples on "mossy green" vinyl. It's only available from Underwater and at the band's ecstatic, teary live shows:
07/13 - Boston, MA @ TT the Bear's Place *
07/14 - Northhampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall *
07/15 - Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo *
07/16 - Ann Arbor MI @ The Blind Pig *
07/17 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
07/19 -Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon *
07/20 - Minniapolis, MN @ Turf Club *
08/09 - Toledo, OH @ Mickey Finn's ^
08/10 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern ^
08/12 - York, PA @ Capitol Theater ^
08/13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rooftop Concert (Old American Can Factory)
08/14 - North Adams, MA @ Solid Sound Festival
* w/ Bear In Heaven and Twin Sister
^ w/ Deer Tick
