Don't Throw Me Away

VINYL FORMAT. Don't Throw Me Away marks the release of The Mumler's second album on Galaxia Records. A sextet of "kids chasing pure soul with whatever tools are at hand." Oddly enough, the tools they use are quirky and old and the songs they create emanate from a place on the fringes of modernity, more in line with the forgotten oldies blasting from lowriders around their hometown.

Don't Throw Me Away disregards convention while embracing the unusual. A darker sound, washes of harmony, and sharp percussion set the new reord apart from its predecessor, Thickets and Stitches, as tape machines, old preamps, vintage organs, and tremolo effects color the music. All songs were written by lead singer Will Sprott, whose favorite artist is Bobby Bland, an often-underappreciated '50s and '60s soul singer from Tennessee. As such, soul is the closet genre that Don't Throw Me Away resembles, but even then, it's not a throwback or purely soul record of any sort. It's a tangle of influences ranging from blues to garage rock, country to jazz, and others.