The Mute Group

Today I announced that Nashville quartet The Mute Group is joining my roster of artists over on yk Records. Their full-length debut, Sinister Hand, will be available in the fall and lots more details will be announced around that in the near future but I mostly just wanted to finally get the word out that we are working together.

The band has been writing, recording and shaping their whole sound since 2016. What I find most fascinating about them is that they don't seem to follow the traditional path of recording an entire album at once and then putting it out into the world. As far back as 2 years ago they released a video for the song Brainplate in Eb. It's, literally, a piece of art. It displayed at the Nashville Art Museum, The Frist, for a number of months as part of an exhibition of exemplary local music endeavors.

They also released a wonderful video for A E I O U that I still can't figure out how it was made. it's stop motion but there's something about it that I can't put my finger on.

All that is to say, they weren't waiting for a label to come along and release their record. They were hurdling forward with or without one. So, I'm hitching my wagon to their star, certainly not the other way around.

Go watch those videos and enjoy.