Mountain Man - Made the Harbor (10 Year Anniversary Edition) (Cassette)On an early draft of folk trio Mountain Mans Bandcamp page, the project aptly described itself as a creature growing from the mouths of Molly Erin Sarl, Alexandra Sasuer Monnig, and Amelia Randall Meath. Sparse and homespun, from the onset the voices of Mountain Man crafted an immediate intimacy. A Mountain Man song exists in a strange and wild and naturalistic world, populated with thick summer air and bright moons and chickadees, unfurling like a

but also a prickly and somehow sinister undulation

while “Emergent Marbled Weaver” conjures an image of Westerlund

before becoming disillusioned with big budgets and the way the form took attention away from the actual music

though – this isn’t art inspired by art

birdsong from outside their studio

Let’s follow that idea

Cook’s musical output and true sound has been hard to pin down

All These Years is Cook’s first solo instrumental album on his primary instrument

for his family

AUDIOBOOK is the meeting of something distinctly analog weaving into a soundscape that could be at home in a 90s sci-fi soundtrack

There’s a patience in the little things

swooping underneath Sanborn’s percussive synth as well as a string arrangement from Gabriel Kahane