I Still Look For The Mountains

Description

Allison Graves is the work of a singer, songwriter and naturalist from New England who has created a powerful, breathy debut that sounds aged and well loved, like an old home, with dogs barking in the background and kids playing in the yard. Allison Graves' rich sense of melody and harmony underscores the depth of the work. Written and recorded across six months and two coasts, with a secondhand guitar and a broken laptop, I Still Look For The Mountains draws inspiration from many wells including Adrianne Lenker and Bon Iver. As if this debut was a long lost reissue from Joe Boyd's Witchseason catalog, this album is reminiscent of Nick Drake and Vashti Bunyan. Highly recommended to Imprec fans of Kurt Weisman, Diane Cluck, James Blackshaw, Kimya Dawson, Asa Irons/Swaan Miller. Opening with a brassy modular synth sequence and layered vocals, Allison Graves immediately establishes a vibe ever-present throughout I Still Look For The Mountains. With songwriting that pins down big, all-encompassing feelings, Allison Graves makes sense of the profoundly unexplainable joys and sorrows of human existence.