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Origin Myths

by Bobby Lee

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Digital release features additional bonus track.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £5 GBP  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Reissue of the instantly sold out 2020 LP.
    Pressed on "Milky Myths" off-white / see through vinyl.
    LP has 12 songs - digital album only has 8.
    Tompkins Square Records.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Origin Myths via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days

      £22 GBP or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 5 Bobby Lee releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Endless Skyways, Ancient Sunlight, Music From Bishops' House - Live 14.4.19, Origin Myths, and Shakedown in Slabtown. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      £19.50 GBP or more (25% OFF)

     

  • Origin Myths CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Digipack CD

    Natural Histories 002.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Origin Myths via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Limited Edition Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Each cassette will feature unique collage cover art. Image only for demonstration purposes.
    Home dubbed onto a high quality cassette tape.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Origin Myths via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Vinyl LP (Tompkins Square Records)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    US orders via: www.tompkinssquare.com/bobbylee.html

    Includes four additional tracks not available elsewhere. Shipping on, or around, 7th May 2021.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Origin Myths via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Cassette + Mixtape Bundle
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Home dubbed "Origin Myths" cassette with one-off collage artwork plus a totally unique mixtape. Send me a message with the specific vibe or year or genre you want and I'll put together a mixtape just for you. All mixtapes will come with custom artwork and a handwritten tracklist.

    (Mixtape orders may take a little longer to ship than usual as they will be made to order.)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Origin Myths via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. Heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.” Edward Abbey

Open sky/scorched earth improvisations recorded to four track tape during the rare moments of solitude afforded by lockdown and early fatherhood. Bobby Lee’s “worn-denim psych-country” remains, but the ancestral spirits of Ashra, Popol Vuh and Terry Riley are present here too. Time and technological limitations have been embraced. A song dreamt up, tracked and mixed in an afternoon, never to be tampered with again. Imperfections allowed to stand; knowing that nothing is ever truly finished. The Bob Ross school of philosophy.

Recorded May-November 2020.

“... a mystical big sky desert dream....” The Wire Magazine

**** Mojo Magazine

“Open sky instrumental wonders” 8/10 Uncut Magazine

“ Lovers of swampy gnarly folk guitars will love Origin Myths” The Guardian

“standing at that interstellar crossroads between Americana, American primitive, psychedelic and shoegaze” Petal Motel

“Soundscape meets landscapes ... like clouds wafting across an endless sky and play like a series of unintentional field recordings made on a dusty summer day.” Bandcamp Daily

“Deep-fried galactic grandeur” Folk Radio UK

“Joining SUSS, Bobby Walker Jr, and North Americans, Lee helps to round out a new wave of top line ambient country.” Raven Sings The Blues

“dime store desert twang” New Commute

“If Harvey Mandel’s Christo Redentor and Jerry Garcia’s first solo LP get just as much use on your turntable as your Popol Vuh and North Americans records, then you unquestionably need Origin Myths in your life.” Record Crates United

BBC6 Music’s Huey Morgan’s Album of the Week.

Support form BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, No Depression, Gideon Coe, WFMU, Huw Stephens, Aquarium Drunkard, Night Folk, NTS.

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released March 5, 2021

Bobby Lee: Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drum Machine, Organ, Acoustic Guitar, Dulcimer, Lap Steel, recording, mixing and artwork.

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Bobby Lee Sheffield, UK

Bobby Lee trades in a wide screen brand of cosmic country-folk, full of space and pawn shop guitars. There are touches of JJ Cale's analogue Americana, the swampy groove of Tony Joe White and Richard Thompson's sinewy, modal guitar work. Amps hum in the warm afternoon sun, kids and dogs snooze on the grass and broken drum machines keep time with the universe… ... more

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