Moonsville Collective Announces Second Installment of Four EP Series

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FEB. 15,  2016 (Press Release)  -- Indie-folk/Americana outfit  Moonsville Collective has announced the release of their new EP, Moonsville, Vol. 2,  out  April 21. This is the second down home installment in the group's ongoing four-EP series, which will ultimately scatter 20 new songs throughout 2017.

Moonsville Collective—named after a home in the sky—is a band that writes songs trimmed from the fat of the American experience. During a time of high saturation and modern pace, the band draws from a slower and simpler time with the belief that good songs can still speak, move and save. 

As young ramblers from the suburbs of Los Angeles, they began their musical formation by taking refuge in Central California and sitting in on jug band and old-time music circles where an infectious and pure spirit of music for music’s sake lived. Injecting that same spirit into their own community became their quest. Moonsville started as a collective, a group for musicians to come and go while fine-tuning their chops. They cheerfully—and often drunkenly—sang their voices hoarse at homegrown hootenannies and local bars that had never heard covers of "C.C. Rider" and "Goodnight Irene."

Eventually, they chiseled their own sound, setting out to explain and narrate their lives and their California while curbing their reliance on old-time tunes. They've since recorded two albums of original music, toured the country, and played countless shows sharing the stage with The White Buffalo, Willie Watson, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others. Moonsville Collective pairs their LA reality of flickering neon signs and mariachi dive bars with their out-of town travels, forming a landscape where their songs can grow, emoting a heart of contentment for what’s been given and a desire for what lies beyond.

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​Moonsville Collective is dedicating the next year to recording and releasing four five-song EPs in an attempt to capture their current streak of prolificacy. With multi-instrumentalists and several songwriters in the band, they keep their Americana style variable, always allowing for experimentation and the blurring of genre lines. One of the group's songwriters, Ryan Welch says; “Each song has a different feel but the consistency lies in the history of us playing together and the trust we have in each other.”

This first release from the quarterly EP series will exhibit the band’s versatility. From a heavy-hitting rock & roll anthem about life on the road ("Alright By Me") to a progressive, harmony-laden old-time number about home ("In the Morning"), Moonsville Collective uses its lyrics to capture the duality of independence and dependence. Those are followed by an aching ballad about sharing your name with the woman you love ("Always Enough"), echoing the heart-on-tattered-sleeve emotion of an old country song. “This EP exposes both our tough and tender sides,” says Corey Adams, another of Moonsville’s songwriters. "America" is a unifying commentary on being raised in the U.S. and speaks to having it all and giving it back. And on mystical folktale "Laughing in the Rain," they laugh at the ways of the world and the futility of going it alone. With a vision that stakes its reputation on quality songwriting, fine-tuned heartfelt musicianship, and the gritty drive to transcend the cul-de-sacs of suburbia, Moonsville Collective is poised to make its mark on the Americana scene and beyond.