Mountain Laughed by Wandering Years

** 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).

Wandering Years is the recording project of Gene Stroman and friends

NYC slowcore by way of VA

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