The second studio album by the Seattle-based sextet, Helplessness Blues, is planned for release on May 3rd, with Roy Harper and Van Morrison being cited as sources of inspiration for a sound that is, 'less poppy, more groove-based'. Click here for a preview of the title track.
Album Art by Toby Liebowitz & Chris Alderson
Today I learned that the band was originally called 'Pineapple', a name they later eschewed for one with more alliterative appeal (or as they put it, one that was 'evocative of some weird English activity like fox hunting').
Taken from their Sun Giant EP, Mykonos on repeat is one of my (not so) guilty musical pleasures. The video depicts a pair of small origami triangles, representing feet, on an adventure through a world made solely of paper. They journey past cloud, forest and foe, only to fall into the sea as the song fades.
