Mipso Mipso

• 1 Never Knew You Were Gone 04:40
• 2 Hey, Coyote 03:35
• 3 Hourglass 03:09
• 4 Your Body 03:24
• 5 Caroline 03:35
• 6 Just Want To Be Loved 03:16
• 7 Help 03:14
• 8 Big Star 04:55
• 9 Let A Little Light In 03:54
• 10 Like You Never 02:28
• 11 Shelter 04:12
• 12 Wallpaper Baby 02:51
• Total Runtime 43:13

Info for Mipso

Mipso’s new self-titled album, is the highly anticipated follow-up to the North Carolina quartet’s acclaimed 2018 album Edges Run. Mipso arrives as the group’s most communally realized work to date—a triumph that’s especially remarkable considering they discussed breaking up after the release of Edges Run. But Mipso’s members—Wood Robinson, Libby Rodenbough, Jacob Sharp, and Joseph Terrell, each a songwriter and lead singer in the band—doubled down on their commitment to each other.

With additional musical contributions by artful engineer/guitarist Mark Goodell (Julian Lage, Margaret Glaspy), Mipso’s touring drummer Yan Westerlund, and their longtime collaborator Shane Leonard (on banjo, percussion, and synth), Mipso is a body of work with spacious arrangements that gently illuminate the idiosyncratic details and refined musicianship at the heart of every song.

They emerged with the strongest artistic statement of their career thus far. With finely layered vocal harmonies and spacious arrangements that gently illuminate the idiosyncratic details and refined musicianship at the heart of every song, Mipso furthers the band’s ever-growing reputation as a potent musical force.

Mipso

Mipso
Since making their acclaimed debut with 2013’s Dark Holler Pop, North Carolina-bred four-piece Mipso have captivated audiences with their finely layered vocal harmonies, graceful fluency in the timeless musical traditions of their home state, and a near-telepathic musical connection that makes their live show especially kinetic. On their self-titled sixth album and Rounder Records debut, fiddle player Libby Rodenbough, mandolinist Jacob Sharp, guitarist Joseph Terrell, and bassist Wood Robinson share their most sonically adventurous and lyrically rich work to date, each moment charged with the tension between textural effervescence and an underlying despair about the modern world. Mainly recorded at Echo Mountain in Asheville, North Carolina, Mipso finds the band joining forces with Sandro Perri (a musician/producer known for his work with acts like Great Lake Swimmers, as well as his own post-rock/experimental-electronic material). In overseeing the production process, Perri guided Mipso toward their goal of shaping a sonic landscape that was expansive and atmospheric yet surprisingly personal, even playful. To that end, the band dreamed up Mipso’s resplendent textures by stretching the limits of their acoustic instruments, rather than employing outside musicians to create new sounds. The result is a body of work with spacious arrangements that gently illuminate the idiosyncratic details and refined musicianship at the heart of every song.

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