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Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - w/Phantom!, The Falcon.
With a self-titled long-player and North American tour locked and loaded, MT. ST. HELENS VIET NAM BAND will continue its brief and head-turning ascension to the top of the pop rock pile. The Seattle band will hit the road in early spring in support of its Dead Oceans debut - due March 10.
Benjamin Verdoes (vocals, guitar, percussion) hoped to motivate his younger brother Marshall to push forward in his drum lessons. Once Marshall got good at drums, Benjamin vowed, they'd start a band together, and now-13-year-old Marshall would have naming rights. That promise is officially made good with the release of Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band's full-length.
Co-produced by Scott Colburn (the Arcade Fire, Animal Collective), the album at first blush recalls Wolf Parade; the band's frayed melodic sensibilities and lead Benjamin's urgent, driven vocals in particular. Of course, Wolf Parade borrowed a few ideas from Modest Mouse, whose beginnings were indebted to the Pixies. This is the sort of musical lineage that creates the foundation for Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band's debut LP. But Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band are not solely inspired by their contemporaries; dig a little deeper and strains of Queen's over-the-top epic rock peers through, while exhilarating guitar work that nods towards Thin Lizzy appears in more than a few songs.
And we're pleased to share "Anchors Dropped" an mp3 from the album HERE.
Complete Tracklisting:
01 Who's Asking 02 Masquerade 03 Cheer for Fate 04 Anchors Dropped 05 Going on a Hunt 06 A Year or Two 07 Albatross Albatross Albatross 08 Dull Reason 09 Little Red Shoes 10 En Fuego 11 On the Collar
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299 Cottage St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
United States
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