Check Out: Murals – On A Passing Cloud

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Murals is a new band from Louisville, Kentucky who make gorgeous, tender, and sometimes very subtle-creepy psych-folk that will needle its way first into your heart and then into your brain. On “Eyes of Love,” the single from their new record On A Passing Cloud, they’ll reel you in with a tender guitar and piano line, vocal harmonies, and Simon & Garfunkel-esque erudite rhythms, and then they’ll drop a piano chord that just sounds wrong – not incorrect, just subtly out of place, a little too dark for the chill pop-folk atmosphere they’ve spent a little while cultivating. But then you get that strange, mesmerizing middle section, a sort of wild west-y interlude that turns into spiraling, convoluted drones before you can ask what’s going on – and then, as if it never happened, as if the cloud never blew over the sun, back to that sweet vocal harmony. Basically, we’re really impressed.  On A Passing Cloud is definitely worth a stream or two – check it out.

Murals: 2012 Tour Dates
July 16– Louisville – The Monkey Wrench
July 17 – Indianapolis, IN–Mediumship
July 18 – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop
July 19 – Muncie, IN – CenterStage
July 20 – Chicago, IL – Grandbar
July 21 – Chicago, IL – Sister Crystals’ Loft Space
July 22 – Grand Rapids, MI – The DAAC
July 23 – Ann Arbor, MI – TBD
July 24 – Detroit – Paychecks
July 25 – Detroit – Woodruff’s in Ypsilanti
July 26 – NYC–Cameo
July 27 – NYC – Pianos
July 28 – NYC – Delinquency BLVD
July 29 –NYC – Mercury Lounge
July 30 – Philadelphia – TBD
July 31 – Philadelphia – Snyder Haus
August 1 –Washington DC – The Velvet Lounge
August 2 – Pocahontas, WV – TBD
August 3 – Lexington, KY – TBD

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