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This is utter enchantment, start-to-finish. My advice? Put on an astronaut helmet, swing for the fences with your drug of choice, and give this album a nice, long spin...
Favorite track: Fire Medicine Man.
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
£5GBP 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.
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.
Sold Out
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.
“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
“ 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.
credits
released March 5, 2021
Bobby Lee: Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drum Machine, Organ, Acoustic Guitar, Dulcimer, Lap Steel, recording, mixing and artwork.
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
Killer brit-folk which sounds like its straight outta Les Cousins C.1970. Super tasteful guitar work and groovy production. Pure pink rim Island rarity vibes. Bobby Lee
Australian collective Family Jordan explore complex emotions through soft alt-country songs that take the bucolic with the bittersweet. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 17, 2021