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mipso mipso

11/21/2020

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​Mipso (from the album Mipso available on Rounder Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
The latest from North Carolina’s Mipso is faint, gentle and delicate. Pleasing, tender, or calm are words that cannot be overused in describing their recent self-titled release. Mipso captures the melody and the harmonies of a lazy, sunny California hippie Pop record that comes from, and with a whisper of, Appalachia. The fiddle in album opener “Never Knew You Were Gone” takes a seat in your head with no intention of leaving while “Hourglass” has an Indie Folk chug and a mysterious undertone. “Caroline” finds the instruments quietly plucked as if played in danger of waking the baby once those instruments have lulled the infant to sleep. “Just Want to Be Loved” is a hurting ballad, Mipso turning a Blues cut inside out, building the arrangement around a dripping guitar solo. 
The picnic tale “Big Star” begins with electro blips and bloops before ‘some candy from Colorado’ recasts the picnic as a psychedelic, meandering dream. “Let A Little Light In” is a heap of harmonies over an animated, playful melody and “Wallpaper Baby” has a Country fiddle that nods to the roots music of North Carolina without relying on twang. Mipso is easy on the ear, soft to the feel; a record to spin circles, swaying barefoot in your kitchen with or without a partner.
(by Bryant Liggett)
 
Listen and buy the music of Mipso from AMAZON
 
For more information head over to the Mipso website
 
 

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