Is Happy Abandon the point where Mumford & Sons meet Mogwai ? Perhaps, but Severed Seams – the latest track to be released from Happy Abandon’s upcoming album Facepaint – is a stirring blend of banjo and drum indie-folk mixed with enormous crescendo hitting orchestral rock. However, Peter Vance (vocals & guitar) is quick to point out that Facepaint is not a breakup album. He explains “if the album were to have a subject, it would be the relationship a person has to loss and loneliness, which can manifest itself through breakups, homelessness, familial abandonment, and death”. In other words – it’s just the kind of cheerful stuff that’s food and drink to the Americana-UK crowd. The album is out on 25th August 2017 via Schoolkids Records.
