{"product_id":"little-mazarn-mustang-island-lp-preorder-ships-june-20-2025","title":"Little Mazarn - Mustang Island LP  (Preorder: Ships June 20, 2025) ( VINYL )","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Please note: This title will ship on or around its release date June 20, 2025. Date and availability is subject to change. We will ship all items in your order when the last title is released and available – so if you would like anything else on your order shipped separately, please place separate orders. Thank you. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMustang Island, the third album from Austin-based band Little Mazarn, is a gentle force. Waves of grief crest like surf on the Texas coast. Wild horses break through long-shuttered gates, only to come back around. Lead songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Lindsey Verrill (she\/her) joins bandmates Jeff Johnston (he\/him) and Carolina Chauffe (they\/them). The ten-song collection continues work with Dear Life Records. A full-throated romp through the capabilities of community-minded songcraft, Mustang Island is both naturalistic and futuristic, completely recasting Little Mazarn's origins in primitive folk. Instead, the band reaches towards sonic experimentation and spacious expansion.\r\n\r\nLindsey's heart-opening vocals and Jeff's singing saw, both trademarks of the project, mix with unexpected bombastic drums, dissonant synthesizers, and a chorus of orchestral oddities. This mid-career ode dances confidently in the creative liberties granted by decades in the game - more dazzlingly lively, and honestly somber, than ever before.\r\n\r\nThe band's crossroads branch across prominent Southern outsider music: On cello, Lindsey has recorded with Patty Griffin and Dana Falconberry. The longtime side player wouldn't write her first song until age 34. Jeff has played in Bill Callahan's band, as well as with Li'l Cap'n Travis and Orange Mothers. Carolina is known for prolific solo project hemlock. Little Mazarn has also collaborated with Lomelda to release their last EP, Honey Island General Store (2023), following past LPs Texas River Song (2022) and Io (2019).\r\n\r\nAlongside silliness and reverence, including covers from Kate Wolf and Bob Wills \u0026amp; His Texas Playboys, grief directs much of Mustang Island. Lindsey left her job of seventeen years teaching cello at a local school. Recording also aligned with the passing of Jeff's father, a career educator in Jeff and Lindsey's hometown of Dallas.\r\n\r\n\"Grief, and the avoidance of grief, is a big part of being human,\" says Lindsey. \"You make a choice, and then you grieve for the other choice. Or you finish a meal and literally grieve that it was so good. If you really befriend grief, you're like, 'Oh, it's here, in this pancake, which I loved so much that I ate the whole thing, and now it's gone.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel: Dear Life Records\u003cbr\u003eUPC: 617308099577\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: June 20, 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrystal Cave\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e New New San Antonio Rose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Cloud and the Snail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dark Pleasure of Endless Doing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Remember the Night Rainbow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mustang Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Gate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Murmuration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Great Divide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Golden Hour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"02- Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56736033898869,"sku":"617308099577","price":3.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8300\/2485\/files\/4423344-3385676.jpg?v=1770954049","url":"https:\/\/warmvibevinyls.com\/products\/little-mazarn-mustang-island-lp-preorder-ships-june-20-2025","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}