The Mountain Movers - Walking After Dark - VINYL LP

The current lineup of New Haven's long running Mountain Movers (guitarist/vocalist Dan Greene, bassist Rick Omonte, guitarist Kryssi Battalene, & drummer Ross Menze) have been playing together for over a decade now, making their recorded debut on a slew of singles released from 2011-2013, but it wasn't until 2015's InchDeath MagicInch (released on New Haven tag Safety Meeting) that the potential of that iteration of the group became clear; Mountain Movers are a force of nature. The camaraderie & sensitivity to each others playing has only grown over time, crystallizing on the group's trio of albums for Trouble In Mind; 2017's eponymous InchMountain MoversInch served as a reintroduction of the group to a larger audience, while 2018's InchPink SkiesInch raged like a group confident in it's strengths, and 2020's prescient InchWorld What WorldInch - written & recorded before the world shut down - slightly shifted focus away from the jams & back toward the weight of guitarist/songwriter Dan Greene's poetic tales of magical realism. The band's ninth album InchWalking After DarkInch finds a happy medium between both aspects of the band's strengths; Greene's lyrical compositions and the group's long-form improvised jams.To those that are tuned in, that feeling of communion is evident in the Movers' playing. The members swap & cycle effortlessly through instruments without missing a beat, utilizing the downtime of lockdown to write & record every jam in their practice space. Those piles of tapes would eventually get edited & sequenced into InchWalking After DarkInch, a tour-de-force double-album that balances fried, stony brilliance with outré excursions of experimental serenity. Consider the opening track InchBodega On My MindInch that ambles in like a road-worn traveler, it's lysergic folk strums peppered with acidic lead lines from Battalene's Telecaster, eventually giving