Broken Devotion, by Mint Julep

Broken Devotion

by Mint Julep

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Slade This is one of those rare bandcamp finds that truly blows me away. Really hope there is more to come, as I have yet to find any similar artists that are even close to being as good. Favorite track: Small Memory.

althrioan hey, you! You touched my heart. Favorite track: When You Reach Me.

Ben Garratt Beautiful, emotional, ethereal dreamy music. Lyrically exceptional. A certainty for one of the best albums of 2016. Favorite track: When You Reach Me.

Pete Kowalsky Oh my goodness -- Hollie and Keith keep getting better and better with every release. WOW. Lush, rich, warm and decadent 80's dream pop never sounded so good.

FANTASTIC and not to be missed! Favorite track: Small Memory.

Jabod Something about Mint Julep's atmospheric and evocative dream pop makes me almost giddy. Hollie has one of the most beautiful and entrancing voices, dripping with cool, and the synths are thrilling. Possibly the best band in the universe. Favorite track: Murmur.

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1.	Small Memory 04:59	buy track
2.	Twilight Still 04:55	buy track
3.	Broken Devotion 04:51	buy track
4.	Slow Spiral 03:44	buy track
5.	White Hot Heart 03:54	buy track
6.	The Promise 04:49	buy track
7.	When You Reach Me 04:27	buy track
8.	Incinerate 03:44	buy track
9.	Murmur 04:25	buy track
10.	Persuasion 02:11	buy track

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Mint Julep is Hollie Kenniff & Keith Kenniff (aka Helios, Goldmund).

www.mintjulepmusic.com
www.unseen-music.com

On their second album Broken Devotion, Portland-based duo Mint Julep instill their lush and gauzy, synth-centric brand of pop music with a raw and powerful emotionalism. The follow-up to their 2011 debut Save Your Season (praised as “melodically sophisticated and dreamy” by the NME), Broken Devotion came to life over the course of four years, with Mint Julep reaching a new level of lyrical precision while easing into more lavishly textured, intricately layered arrangements. Throughout Broken Devotion, multi-instrumentalist/producer Keith Kenniff (also known for his work as ambient indie-electronic act Helios) and his wife Hollie Kenniff (Mint Julep’s vocalist and lyricist) explore the many bright and dark dimensions of love, a tension that’s masterfully embodied on the album’s title track. Urgent yet ethereal, “Broken Devotion” merges driving rhythms and hazy guitar tones as Hollie’s hypnotic vocal work achingly captures the unraveling of a romance (“There’s a ghost inside us/There are hands on your eyes/Spaces in between us/There are places we can’t hide”). Despite the moody atmosphere of the album, much of Broken Devotion was born from a certain lighthearted spirit within Mint Julep’s creative partnership. Lead single “White Hot Heart,” for instance, began as a playful experiment in retro electro-pop but eventually mutated into an airy and shimmering, synth-laced number that’s timeless in melody. Also featuring a gorgeously sprawling cover of When In Rome’s late-‘80s new-wave hit “The Promise,” Broken Devotion shifts from the frenetic energy of beat-driven tracks like “Incinerate” to the downtempo drama of songs like “Slow Spiral” with delicate grace. Forming Mint Julep in 2007, the Kenniffs originally had modest intentions for the band. “The project really just started out as a way to get my wife to sing, because I knew that she could but was kind of shy about it,” says Keith. Though the duo initially mined much influence from early-‘90s shoegaze, Mint Julep gradually shaped their sound by drawing inspiration from electronic music and from their shared affection for rough-edged music of varying genres (industrial for Hollie, punk rock for Keith). “It took us a while to suss out whether this was something we were just going to have fun with, or if we’d actually release our music,” Keith says. “But we ended up keeping at it, and now we’re at the point where we’ve created something with its own sound that’s very unique to us.” Noting that “it’s been great for Hollie and me to bond over making music, and to have that music feed into our relationship,” Keith points out that Mint Julep have found an even more enduring purpose in creating both Broken Devotion and its predecessor. “Writing music can be stressful, but there’s that joy that comes from creating something that you know you’ll have for a really long time,” he says. “We can finish an album and move on, and then go back years later and let the songs tell us what was happening then, what we were feeling. It’s a cool way to mark all these very specific moments in our lives together.”

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released February 12, 2016

Mastered by Carl Saff
Mixed, recorded and performed by Keith & Hollie Kenniff

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www.mintjulepmusic.com

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