Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Record Review: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Where The Messengers Meet


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Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Where The Messengers Meet

Dead Oceans

We all know the saying about what happens when you assume. And we also know that a band’s name usually has little to do with its sound or its genre (see: Conifer). But Ben Verdoes and his Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band seemed to uninitiated ears to promise something either ramshackle or violent or both, a troupe of minstrels preaching peace and protest or waging nothing less than sonic war.

Neither is true....[Read more]



[MP3] Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - "Hurrah" (via Dead Oceans)

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