Keeping tabs on The Haunted Mansions

I like to keep tabs on artists I was fortunate to encounter in my work on this blog. It enables a wider perspective of how the artist works and develops and how the sound evolves or in some unfortunate cases stops. In the case of The Haunted Mansions, the developments are all positive.

A 3 piece indie psychedelics/freak folk from the North West, I stumbled upon them about 3 months ago (post). In the meantime they've started working on a new album, which at least as the first single from it suggests, will not only be a continued evolution of their unique sound, but also promises to be very intriguing.

Check out The Haunted Mansions on MySpace for more tracks and updates. Their new album is being recorded as these lines are written. Can you hear them?

The Haunted Mansions - Oh, Samantha! {MP3} (from the new and untitled album)

Featured Artist(s): The Haunted Mansions

Obviously inspired by the likes of Animal Collective, Beirut and possibly the Dodos and Band of Horses to name a few, The Haunted Mansions (formerly known as Greenlandic Blaque) still manage to create a sound of their own. A North-West American band, some of its members also dabble in video animation (see group member Seth Nicholas' YouTube channel here).

It should be interesting to follow the group's path and work, in animation and music, and watch their artistic distinctiveness forming.

Check out The Haunted Mansions on their MySpace and Facebook pages for further details and their last.fm page (where they are still called Greenlandic Blaque) for more tracks.

The Haunted Mansions - Don't Let Your Arms Get Tired {MP3}
The Haunted Mansions - Oyster Bay, December 26th {MP3}
The Haunted Mansions - Watch Out Birds {MP3}

Bonus - Kate, a short film by Seth Nicholas Johnson about adolescent infatuation and the joy of playing music with animal friends. Music by The Haunted Mansions.