Stones Throw News: Mild High Club – Skiptracing

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• Mild High Club – Skiptracing
• Mndsgn “Cosmic Perspective” Video
• Mndsgn to release BODY WASH, full-length album, on September 16

Mild High Club – Skiptracing Photo by Isaac Sterling August 16, 2016 In the store | MILD HIGH CLUB - SKIPTRACING Vinyl and CD now shipping. Worldwide release: August 26th.  Mild High Club founder Alexander Brettin grew up playing flute in the school band and majoring in jazz studies in Chicago. In 2012, a visit to Los Angeles allowed him to connect with the Stones Throw crew. Within a year, after passing the early demos of what would become Timeline onto Peanut Butter Wolf, Brettin made the move out west. “The difference between Timeline and Skiptracing is detail,” Brettin said. “I was stubborn with the process for Timeline; it took almost three years to let go of it.” On Timeline, Brettin resorted to vague lyrics so as to highlight the music itself. But for Skiptracing there’s both a heightened thematic aspect as well as more complex musical arrangements encasing it. In Brettin’s estimation, the album’s story arc is that of a “private investigator attempting to trace the steps of the sound and the spirit of American music.”

Stones Throw News: Mild High Club – "Skiptracing" Video

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Mild High Club – "Skiptracing" Video August 02, 2016 COMING AUGUST 26 | MILD HIGH CLUB - SKIPTRACING Mild High Club have announced their second full length album, Skiptracing, due out August 26th on Stones Throw Records. It’s the follow up to last year’s Timeline. Here's the title track, “Skiptracing” Mild High Club's Alexander Brettin shot the majority of the short film himself with assistance from Bradford Walters. Brettin saw some of Walter's surfing footage when Mild High Club toured with the Allah-Lahs and was inspired to shoot Walters himself on the beach, imitating French New Wave. Brettin explains the video in his own words, “It’s a guy with a detector who finds an old friend and has a dance. You could say he's skiptracing the presence of the character played by the indelible Bleu Archbold.” ---