Mipso's Edges Run Album Release Tour Comes to Sweet Pea, August 4

Saturday, August 4 @ 6:00PM

Sweet Pea Festival

424 E Main St, Ste 203B Bozeman, MT

Tickets $20 ADV / All Ages Welcome

For more information, please contact (406) 586-4003 or visit https://sweetpeafestival.org/

 

 

North Carolina’s indie-Americana darlings Mipso have released the official video for the track “Moonlight,” from their critically acclaimed new album Edges Run. Premiering with No Depression, the video illustrates the familiar and all-too-human emotion of feeling alone, even while surrounded by those you love the most. Songwriter Joseph Terrell explains, “I wrote ‘Moonlight’ after a breakup while I drove all day back to North Carolina from where I’d been living in Boston. I was sitting in summer traffic on the worst highway in America in a rented minivan full of all my stuff, and I kind of just had to laugh. There’s that voice in your head that wants to tell the world, ‘I’m totally fine!’ when you’re anything but.” Check out the video here.

 

The video release accompanies the band’s announcement of a run of additional summer tour dates this August. Venturing to the Western mountain states, Mipso bring their captivating live show to Montana, Colorado, and Utah for multiple dates, starting August 1st, 2018 in at Yellowstone Brewing in Billings, MT. Mipso can also be seen playing festivals this summer, including the Blue Ox Music Festival in Eau Claire, WI, Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival, the Calgary Folk Festival, and Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC this September. All confirmed dates are listed below, with tickets available at www.mipsomusic.com.

 

Mipso released their fourth album, Edges Run, this past April. Available now on all digital service platforms and for physical purchase at www.mipsomusic.com, the album has received praise from critics and fans alike.  The album’s first two singles - “People Change” and the title track “Edges Run” have received over 5 million streams on Spotify so far, with placement on prominent Spotify Playlists such as “Your Favorite Coffeehouse,” “Relax & Unwind,” “Roots Rising,” “Stay Wild,” “Afternoon Acoustic,” “Fresh Folk,” “Pulse of Americana,” and many others.

 

 

Edges Run was named “Best New Music” by American Songwriter Magazine, with PopMatters encouraging listeners to “...enjoy making multiple runs through ‘Edges Run’ to let its tried-and-true virtues — from intricate harmonies to magnetic musicianship to splendid storytelling — soak in before feeling an emotional rush that you'll want to experience again and again.” No Depression reviews, “Mipso balances heavy heartbreak and introspection with poppy, good-times acoustic pop. It's a good spectrum for the quartet, in that it allows for a wide sonic and emotional range.”

 

Mipso has always been a creative democracy, and on Edges Run the band takes this ideal to greater lengths than ever before. “We’d all seen a lot of change in a short period,” says Sharp of the time between the band’s recent 2016 release, Coming Down The Mountain, and Edges Run - recorded in early 2017. “Three of us moved out of the Triangle area and into other places. We had relationships end and deaths of friends and family members.”

 

Those events alone could account for the deeply introspective themes on Edges Run, recorded during the dead of winter in Eugene, Oregon. “We were beginning to feel, probably for the first time, that youth was more behind us than ahead, and so I think we were all feeling different pressures closing in,” says Sharp. So the band took a step back to consider their songs-in-progress — and took a leap of faith in traveling far from their North Carolina comfort zone to record in Oregon with producer (and bassist) Todd Sickafoose (Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Anaïs Mitchell).

 

They carried with them into the sessions a desire to stretch themselves beyond previously known roads of composition and performance. For the first time, Mipso came to the studio with sketches of songs rather than fully-fleshed arrangements and decided to co-write songs together, also a first for the band. Call it a new level of confidence or a developing collective consciousness, but with five years as a band and hundreds of nights on the road together, with the release of Edges Run Mipso retains its traditional roots while becoming thoroughly modern, intuitive musicians with the ability to transcend conventions and embrace what lies ahead.

 

“We have a better idea of what we can do, and how we want to do it,” says Sharp.