Another Michael - Land - CASSETTES

The three years since Haybaby's last full-length have been tumultuous ones for the Brooklyn band. Following the high of it's debut Sleepy Kids and subsequent EP Blood Harvest, singer/guitarist Leslie Hong's father was diagnosed with cancer, which instigated a life-altering move to help him through an ultimately fatal battle with the disease. Over the same period, band members Sam Yield and Jeremy Duvall weathered heartaches of their own; and just when things seemed like they couldn't get harder, the band's tour van was incinerated in a random act of arson.Writing and recording amidst the tragedy and turmoil, Haybaby's sophomore LP They Get There unapologetically confronts legacies of harm. Whether it's the intensely personal narrative of InchMonster,Inch a tense reckoning with the lasting emotional repercussions of an abusive relationship, or in the unstoppable fury of InchWitch Like Me,Inch a detonation of rage at the ongoing history of violence against women, it's not surprising that this album contains some of the band's most biting, unforgiving songs yet.Perhaps what is most extraordinary is the abundance of everything else - the tenderness and lyricism in InchAnimosity,Inch or the playfulness in opener InchTotal Bore.Inch They Get There is a record where any spark can turn into a blaze, and where saplings grow in the midst of wildfires. It's the work of a band that has experienced grief,loss, anger, and arson. But instead of giving up or giving in, the trio has persevered and swallowed it all, converting the negative into fuel for hope. If Haybaby can get there, so can you1. Total Bore2. Monster3. Witch Like Me4. Animosity5. Home6. My Mother Tells Me7. Empathy8. You Got It, Steve!9. Get Down10. I'll Wait

Hanna Aberg - Hanna Aberg [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/11/1999

For Another Michael, it all boils down to trust. In mid-2017, the critically acclaimed indie three-piece packed their bags and collectively relocated from Albany, NY to a shared house in West Philadelphia. This move signaled not only the start of a new chapter for the trio, but also a deepening of the bonds that would come to define their captivating debut LP, 'New Music and Big Pop.'InchIt's hard for a group of people to get closer than living together,Inch says bassist and producer Nick Sebastiano. InchThe stronger our connection grew, the more it shaped the music we found ourselves making.InchIt should come as little surprise, then, that 'New Music and Big Pop' is Another Michael's most collaborative work yet. Recorded in a small A-frame house-turned-makeshift studio outside Ferndale, NY, the record finds the trio pushing their sound in a dreamier, more folk-influenced direction, building songs around vulnerable, intimate performances using an ethereal palette of breezy guitars, subtle keyboards, and layered harmonies. As on the band's early EPs, singer and songwriter Michael Doherty's mesmerizing voice is front and center here, calling to mind Robin Pecknold or Ben Bridwell in it's reedy, crystalline timbre, but it feels more at home than ever before amidst the album's rich, Technicolor landscape, which the band partnered with producer and fellow housemate Scoops Dardaris to create. The result is a masterfully understated record that belies it's status as a full-length debut, a thoughtful, poetic, collection all about growth and change, hope and faith, endings and beginnings, delivered by a band that's only just begun to scratch the surface of their story.