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speck mountain - summer above - peacefrog - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Folk

1. Summer Above
2. Hey Moon
3. Girl Out West
4. Midnight Sun
5. Stockholm
6. Fjord Song
7. Chlorine Fields
8. Blood Is Clean

Summer Above is the debut release from Chicago’s Speck Mountain. Already enjoying a lease of life as a US-import, Summer Above has drawn comparisons to The Velvet Underground and Mazzy Star. . Recorded in New York and Chicago in 2005 and 2006, Summer Above is entirely self-produced. Parts of it were taped in late night sessions at a New York voice-over studio Dubway, where the then-duo was allowed to record from midnight until 6am each day. The album is a dreamy, psychedelic pop-rock built one with shimmering guitars and singer Marie-Claire Balabanian’s soft, sedated, honey-dripped vocals.