Book of Fools

by Mipso

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1.	Starry Eyes / Books of Fools 05:14	buy track
2.	Radio Hell 03:23	buy track
3.	East 04:02	buy track
4.	Broken Heart / Open Heart 03:35	buy track
5.	I Wait For Your Call 03:12	buy track
6.	Carolina Rolling By 05:05	buy track
7.	The Numbers 03:37	buy track
8.	Called Out 02:42	buy track
9.	Thirsty 03:04	buy track
10.	Break It To You 04:18	buy track

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Post-pandemic Mipso is starting fresh again with “Book of Fools”. The songs might be their best yet: “Carolina Rolling By” shows Terrell at his most relaxed and confident while the band turns a story of a pill-popping truck driver into a meditative cosmic country-tinged head bopper. “The Numbers” flirts with 60s surf rock while Rodenbough winks and wags a finger at our market-obsessed culture, and “Broken Heart/Open Heart” features Sharp at his most heart-wrenching and earnest. Other standouts “East” and “Radio Hell” will infect you with earworms made of guitar riffs, Robinson’s pretzel-twisted upright bass lines, and saturated “ooohs” drifting in as if on AM radio waves.

Rock, country, indie-Americana: genre descriptors try but miss the point, which is that these four people and only these four people could’ve made this album. Only a decade in the van could’ve made this album. Only four personalities held in sustained, frictional balance could’ve made this album with its sizzling energy and unlikely cohesion. Mipso did it again. These are searching, driving songs from a band that’s still trying to say something different, still going somewhere new.

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released August 24, 2023

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Mipso Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Since making their acclaimed debut with 2013’s Dark Holler Pop, North Carolina-bred four- piece Mipso have captivated audiences with their finely layered vocal harmonies, graceful fluency in the timeless musical traditions of their home state, and a near-telepathic musical connection that makes their live show especially kinetic. ... more

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