Mountain Laughed, by Wandering Years

Mountain Laughed

by Wandering Years

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1.	Almost a Memory 02:13		buy track
2.	New Year Song 06:14	lyrics	buy track
I don’t need to hear anything more How things will change in the New Year Time’s still rapping on the front door Hope and anxiety is still there New Year’s got me in its throes New Year, but who in the hell knows? Can’t shake the feeling in my chest Why can’t change be easier than this? New York’s still gonna be there Mountain’s far away but still there The years got me in a weird place And I wish things would stay the same Stay the same
3.	House Party 06:56		buy track
4.	Morning 02:06		buy track
5.	Rained Today 01:56		buy track
6.	Satori 02:23		buy track
7.	Two Days 05:50		buy track
8.	Race Day 03:33		buy track
9.	Grass 05:06		buy track
10.	Nashville, etc. 04:55		buy track
11.	Tabebuia 01:44		buy track
12.	News from Outside 04:47		buy track
13.	Mountain Laughed 01:15		buy track

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** Cassettes available for purchase through Candlepin Records **

Mountain Laughed is the first full-length studio recording from Brooklyn’s Wandering Years. Channeling the melodic and melancholic sounds of early indie rock groups like Red House Painters, Low, and
Songs: Ohia, the album is a tender meditation on the seemingly relentless river of time experienced in the city. Sonically, tracks vary from quiet folk balladry (Grass, Rained Today) to more aggressive and
emotional leanings (Satori, News from Outside). Others, like Morning and New Year Song, have the immediacy of guitar-driven tunes from bands like Oasis or the Goo Goo Dolls. While previous releases
from Wandering Years have often been hushed and intimate, Mountain Laughed is expansive, catchy and direct. The addition of two electric guitars and a rhythm section provides a new and exciting dimension to Stroman’s introspective, diaristic lyricism. In Mountain Laughed, Stroman writes earnestly about finding stability in the quotidian – with songs describing the awkward awareness of his own adulthood at a Bushwick basement show or interstitial time spent off work at jury duty. Recorded in late 2022 into early 2023, the album was engineered by Kevin Copeland (Lightning Bug, The Big Net) at Science Is Magic Studios in Vermont and mixed/mastered by Bradford Krieger of Big Nice Studio (Friendship, Horse Jumper of Love).

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released August 25, 2023

Songs and lyrics by Gene Stroman

Gene Stroman: Vocals, Guitar, Drums on “Grass”
Martin Besa: Guitar
Justin Hla-Gyaw: Guitar
Kenny Hamilton: Bass, Piano, Backing Vocals
Alex Alfaro: Drums
Kevin Copeland: Pedal Steel, Backing vocals
Matt Schlatter: Bass, Piano, Synth on "Grass"

Engineered by Kevin Copeland (Science is Magic Studios)
“Grass” engineered and produced by Matt Schlatter
Mixed and mastered by Bradford Krieger (Big Nice Studio)

Art Direction by Gene Stroman
Album Art by Dora Lazarevic
Album photograph: “Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff” Peter Henry Emerson, 1886

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Wandering Years Brooklyn, New York

Wandering Years is the recording project of Gene Stroman and friends

NYC slowcore by way of VA

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