Feature
sep 22, 2023
Feature
sep 22, 2023
Av Erin McAnally
Foto: Calli Westra
Mipsos kommande skiva är “album of the month” i Bluegrass Situation. Läs intervjun och artikeln om skivan och var bandet befinner sig i karriären. Ett öppenhjärtigt prat om vad som händer när man hänger med samma gäng i 10 år och vad man lär sig om och för livet. Medlemmarna har alla flyttat från North Carolina till helt olika platser runt USA och alla längtar tillbaka till en tid när de kunde bara hänga och repa mycket mer. Det är bra efter 10 år på vägen.
“Mipso’s new album, Book of Fools, pushes and pulls away from and toward the band’s sense of home, musically and geographically. There is a kinetic energy in this collaboration that is only achieved from years (10, to be precise) of hard-won work and the evolution of four people who choose each other. Though their sonic palate has shifted from earlier folk and bluegrass influences, this is less of a sea change and more a showcase of transformation and exploration amongst a group that has purposely allowed itself the space to shift.
Speaking with members Wood Robinson, Libby Rodenbough, Jacob Sharp, and Joseph Terrell is a fresh reminder that a band, no matter how harmonious their music may be, consists of individual humans with their own needs, their own ideas of home, and their own personal evolutions. Bands that survive and thrive through the grueling work of creation to commerce are those that carve out the space for people to move and change and shapeshift.”