Album Sneak Peek: Twin Atlas' Good Light available tomorrow

POSTED: Monday, August 3, 2009, 9:30 PM

Filed Under: Music | Album Philly Bands

We've long been fans of the various works of Sean Byrne, the onetime drummer for acts like Mazarin and Lenola, whose work as a songwriter/guitarist/singer with Lucas Zaleski in' Twin Atlas is strummy, ethereal, sunny-day, feel-happy-but-a-little-sad kinda stuff. Byrne writes to let us know that in advance of the digital release of the band's Good Light tomorrow, they're making two tracks from the album available today, for free:

Soundtracking the humidity of Summer 2009, with an eye towards the crisp Autumn to come....

'Good Light' by The Twin Atlas (ex-Mazarin, Lenola), out digitally tomorrow Tuesday 8/4, on CD later this month.

2 free MP3's:

'Versions' (download)

[audio:http://stream.citypaper.net/music/ta_versions.mp3]

'Never Disappear' (download)

[audio:http://stream.citypaper.net/music/ta_neverdisappear.mp3]

RIYL: rural sunset drives, Yo La Tengo's mystical side, canned beer, Teenage Fanclub, vocal harmonies, coffee, Byrds, light filtering through the atmosphere, longboarding, Murmur, good vibes, chiming guitars, nighttime bicycling, 'Sentimental Lady'.

You can buy the album, beginning Aug. 4,' at thetwinatlas.com

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