Backwoods of My Mind, by Swarme of Beese

Backwoods of My Mind

by Swarme of Beese

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1.	Backwoods of My Mind 05:15	buy track
2.	Singing in the Dark 03:41	buy track
3.	Such a Thing as Tupelo 04:36	buy track
4.	Crown of Wire 04:42	buy track
5.	Battleground 04:35	buy track
6.	I Sing to You 04:23	buy track
7.	Guntown Mountain 04:57	buy track
8.	Nothing But Her Name 05:12	buy track

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Swarme of Beese weave subtle layers of instrumental texture and hints of psychedelic folk into the minor keys and stripped-down underpinnings of the band’s hillbilly noir aesthetic, creating a mutant folk sound with a strong American gothic undercurrent. A source close to the band has described it as “hillbillies who got lost on their way to the moonshine still and stumbled upon some mushrooms.”

The album's eight shadowy, unsettling tracks take the listener down haunted paths that meander off the main roads to the eerie places where boundaries between the real and the imaginal disappear. Songs of heartbreak and longing, lost innocence and betrayal, guilt and forgiveness are punctuated with atmospheric arrangements, soaring harmonies, and sweeping violin solos. The tracks flow like sequences from an apocalyptic fever dream; but when the fever breaks and the songs end, we’re left with a sense of hope and redemption.

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released May 3, 2022

Stephen Canner - vocals, guitar, bouzouki, Nashville-tuned guitar
Lynne Adele - vocals, guitar, guitjo, Nashville-tuned guitar, percussion
Stefan Keydel - violin, viola
with very special guest Mark Addison - piano, bass, slide guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, glockenspiel, pump organ, percussion, sampled cello

Produced, recorded, & mixed by Mark Addison at The Aerie, Austin, TX

All songs written by Stephen Canner, except “Backwoods of My Mind” and “I Sing to You,” written by Stephen Canner & Lynne Adele.

Copyright 2022 Backwoods Modern Music (BMI)

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