Mt. Misery: Love In Mind (2024)

So when a trusted online music friend tweets about an album and compares it to Teenage Fanclub, Cosmic Rough Riders, and Big Star, it does seem like he's just daring me not to like it.

So I took the bait and checked out Love In Mind, a 2024 album from UK indie pop act Mt. Misery... and, yeah, of course I like it. Full of jangly guitars and lovely melodies, with pretty mid-tempo pop songs, it's right in my sweet spot. (See also, e.g., The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness; Chime School.)

I missed the album on its release last year but now I'm making up for lost time, playing it on auto-repeat all morning! I also tracked down their 2021 long-playing debut, Once Home, No Longer, which is also quite nice, though Love In Mind packs a little more punch, a little more upbeat and with fuller production. It's pithy and efficient--most songs hover around the two-minute-thirty mark and the whole thing falls short of half an hour--but the songs are invariably great. A perfect way to ease yourself through a sunny weekend.

Check it out at Bandcamp!

Album opener "Hey":

"Waking Up":

"On My Mind":