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The Mural and the Mint is a new music project started by Philadelphia songwriter Michael Kiley, now including Eliza Jones and Jack McBrearty. We just released our first full length record, Private Pockets, which you can preview above, but download for free at:
http://www.themuralandthemint.com
While you are there, be sure to check out our other recordings, join our elist, or better yet, donate. We are a listener supported band, so if you like our music, please give what you can so that we can make more of it.
Press for Private Pockets:
"...it twinkles gently but burns with sincerity, romantic and critical at once." (Doug Wallen, PW)
"It’s as if some Goliath of art rock like Queen got its ass kicked by Bon Iver." (A.D. Amorosi, City Paper)
"...it's fucking amazing." (Conrad, Philthy Blog)
The band has an engaging baroque folk-pop sound highlighted by ornate musical and vocal arrangements." (Bruce Warren, Philadelphia Freedom)
Press for Caterpillar-Cocoon-Butterfly:
"...it dwells on ticklish piano and Kiley’s pretty, near-acrobatic singing, with sharp lyrics that flit from love and fatherhood to “gritty city streets.” (Doug Wallen) Philadelphia Weekly
"All of the songs here practically illuminate with their own unique, beautiful, and quiet strength." -Girl About Town
"Sometimes you stumble upon something that restores your faith in an angry city. Restores your faith in strangers and ideals. Not in a cheesy way; just a nice refreshing way. The Mural and the Mint did that for me." -Ugh News
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