{"title":"Lower 40 Records \/ Pretty Ambitious Records","description":"Lower 40 Records \/ Pretty Ambitious Records","products":[{"product_id":"wrinkle-neck-mules-apprentice-to-ghosts-cd","title":"Wrinkle Neck Mules ‎– Apprentice To Ghosts CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3223997325\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWrinkle Neck Mules ‎– Apprentice To Ghosts CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat separates The Wrinkle Neck Mules from the standard fare of Southern-based country-inspired rock is a fierce passion embedded in every element of their approach, from their songwriting and singing, to the lyricism and sounds, there is a weightiness, a fiercity, almost like Apocalyptic or battlefield poetry, and very poetic, though their sonic approach and subtly keep it from coming across as dark or Gothic. 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Wrinkle Neck Mules seem to acknowledge both their defiance of the odds and the length of their toil on their sixth studio album, I Never Thought It Would Go This Far. Celebrating 15 plus years together in 2015, the WNM aren t slowing down despite being a study in ts and starts, dichotomy and contrast. They have amassed a long list of bizarre accomplishments that hardly seem capable of attribution to the same band. They ve been ridiculed by Don Imus on live TV, featured in mainstream television commercials, and have recorded with Bonnie Prince Billy. Reviewers called them both ascendant and essential and under the radar. Essentially every term available in the Americana lexicon has been used to describe Wrinkle Neck Mules music: indie rock, Southern rock, roots rock, newgrass, bluegrass, country, alt-country, alt-Americana, and even something called heavy folk metal. They ve earned all of these genre bending descriptions because they often flank their rock framework with country instrumentation and bluegrass-style singing. To further complicate matters, the band splits songwriting and lead vocal duties between Andy Stepanian and Chase Heard, resulting in tunes ranging from rustic and old-time to anthemic rock. On I Never Thought It Would Go This Far, the band does not abandon its heritage but more often steers into lush and epic, often mellow, sonic territory rather than the more back porch stomping grounds of the past. The thirteen tracks were recorded live to analog tape in Barboursville, Virginia over eight days in May, 2014 with the help of engineer and co-producer Rob Evans (Dave Matthews Band, Old Calf) and organ and piano player Mark Goldstein.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lower 40 Records \/ Pretty Ambitious Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42422089318585,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2606\/0952\/products\/wnkinever.jpg?v=1654792891"},{"product_id":"mermaids-holiday-7","title":"Mermaids ‎– Holiday 7\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FotGzVoZ4x8?si=QwVz5gj3m8tL_PFW\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMermaids ‎– Holiday 7\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMermaids may seem like the new kids on the block, but their individual musical history and various side projects show their extensive talent and love of the Atlanta scene. With former and current projects including Gringo Star, The Fixed Focus and The Barberries, these guys have influences that make their own blend of 1950s surf punk rock so captivating. Imagine the Beach Boys at a punk rock show. 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Atlanta s own Mermaids opens the album with the sunny Holiday, pouring with that same 60s doo-wop-ness that made everyone want to go surfing. However, according to singer, guitarist and founding Mermaid Matt McCalvin (formerly of Gringo Star), there s a lot of depressing, personal sh*t going on in some of these songs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMcCalvin and John Hughes, along with Noah Adams (bass), Sam Wagstaff (keys) and Ryan Fetter (drums), are responsible for this bleached landscape. If the whirly, trippy album cover is any indication of The Mermaids headspace while recording the album, then it is no wonder that songs like Whirlpool and Everybody s Acting Like an Animal have enough reverb to qualify these tunes as psychadelic-punk; apparently a good enough reason for the bands label, Pretty Ambitious (an offshoot of local roots rock label Lower 40 Records.), to launch just to put out the band s music. Frozen in Time has a gothic, sun-bleached, Ever Fallen in Love flavor, courtesy of the attic-turned studio magic of Abby Go Go drummer Ian McDonald, who produced\/engineered Tropsicle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeedless to say talent exudes here more than just some punk rock oohs and ahhs. The Mermaids have a summer album that is sure to stretch farther than Atlanta. 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