Sacred Vacation

Five Baltimore residents came together in 2005 to form The Lexie Mountain Boys and yes indeed they are all women. Sacred Vacation is the result of three years of performances, events and tours in the US and Canada. Recorded in the sanctuary of St John's Church in Baltimore MD by Wye Oak's Andy Stack, Sacred Vacation is a document of years of unique vocal practice and fierce sisterhood. No overdubs were used, nor were any added effects on the vocals used beyond the glorious natural reverb of the sanctuary.

Lexie Mountain Boys sublimate a wide array of vocal and non-vocal influences - doo-wop, Baltimore Club, modern experimental anti-traditions, radio pop divadom, vaudeville - into a completely new beast. The Mountain Boys are a singing group, and the term a cappella is both accurate and also somehow limiting in describing the sort of scope Sacred Vacation assumes. Sacred Vacation is music of the soul, the pure immediate nowness of tight homies, loose sounds, and the harmonics of freedom.