Mint Julep

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www.mintjulepmusic.com Mint Julep on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mintjulepmusic Twitter: http://twitter.com/_MintJulep New LP, Broken Devotion, out now! Free download of a new Mint Julep track 'Tame': https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff/mint-julep-tame-free-download Other projects by Keith Kenniff: Helios and Goldmund. Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2007, Mint Julep is the husband-and-wife team of Hollie and Keith Kenniff. Subsequently relocating to Portland, Oregon, the duo cut a limited release album, Songs About Snow, in 2008 – effectively a trial run for further recording in their home studio, the fruit of which is a sublime follow-up, Save Your Season, released in 2011. The duo self-released Broken Devotion on Unseen in 2015. An ambient album, A Deep and Dreamless Sleep, is slated for release in late 2016. Hallmarked by Hollie’s seductive, dreamy vocals and a succession of memorably soaring choruses, all of it etched with Keith’s vivid, glinting keyboards, towering guitars and miscellaneous instrumental hooks, Mint Julep make lustrous modern pop music that is wistful and mellifluous yet simultaneously powerful, even epic – equal parts shoegazing romanticism and cool, Kraftwerkian polish. Their songs seem instantly familiar, like old musical friends, a ’classicism’ offset by the freshness and luminosity they exude as they usher you on a breathless ride through the sunlit uplands of electronic indie-rock. Mint Julep was designed as a conscious departure from Keith’s previous, ambient- orientated projects. “When Hollie and I set out to do something, I wanted to find some way to incorporate her vocals into a slightly different style, rather than just write similar material to my solo work and lay her vocals over top”, he says. “I had the need to write something that had some distorted guitars, loud drums and was a little bolder than what I had previously done. We messed around with a track one night (which became ‘Stay’) and it was a fun process, so we just kept writing more songs so we could do a project together.” Soon a working pattern emerged, with Keith composing music around Hollie’s lyrics or making tracks which Hollie would then add to. “It just developed after a lot of trial and error, and after a while the material started to plateau and began to sound like an album…” A Pennsylvannian by birth, Keith Kenniff is an honours graduate of Boston’s esteemed Berklee College of Music, best known as the brains behind dulcet ambient/electronic practitioners Helios and the fingers on the ivories of post-classical piano minimalists Goldmund (the latter’s music once described by no less an authority than Ryuichi Sakamoto as “…so, so, so beautiful…”). A succession of albums under those aliases has made Kenniff the darling of discerning critics and his music has also been widely used in film, television and advertising, not least on the soundtrack to Harmony Korine’s 2007 comedy-drama Mister Lonely and the trailer for the 2009 Academy Award-nominated Revolutionary Road, directed by Sam Mendes. Originally from Ohio, singer Hollie Kenniff maintains dual US/Canadian citizenship, having spent part of her life in Ontario. Aside from Mint Julep, she has collaborated on several additional musical endeavors in tandem with husband Keith, including a children’s music project, Meadows, (inspired by the couple’s young son), whose debut longplayer was recently released, and an ambient diversion under their own names. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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shoegaze,dream pop,indie,electronic,Mellow,indie shoegaze,metropopolis,nu gaze,

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country: US

city: Portland

Begin Date: 2007

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May/2019

Stranger - Single

Stranger - Single

May/2019

Stranger

May/2019

Still Waters - Single

Still Waters - Single

Dec/2017

Still Waters

Dec/2017

Broken Devotion

Broken Devotion

Feb/2016

The Promise - Single

The Promise - Single

May/2015

The Promise

May/2015

Dark and Stormy

Dark and Stormy

May/2013

Tame

Feb/2013

Save Your Season (Japanese edition)

Save Your Season (Japanese edition)

May/2012

To The Sea - Single

To The Sea - Single

Feb/2012

To The Sea

Feb/2012

Save Your Season

Save Your Season

Nov/2011

Why Don't We

Nov/2011

Why Don't We - Single

Why Don't We - Single

Nov/2011

Days Gone By - Single

Days Gone By - Single

Oct/2011

Days Gone By

Oct/2011

Aviary - Single

Aviary - Single

Sep/2011

Aviary

Sep/2011

After All

May/2023

Tame - Single

Feb/2023

Daydream

Nov/2022

Daydream - Single

Daydream - Single

Nov/2022

Take My Breath Away

Take My Breath Away

Oct/2022

Take My Breath Away - Single

Take My Breath Away - Single

Oct/2022

If I Say Tomorrow - Single

If I Say Tomorrow - Single

Apr/2022

If I Say Tomorrow

If I Say Tomorrow

Apr/2022

Covers

Mar/2022

Shout

Feb/2022

Halfway - Single

Halfway - Single

Jul/2021

Halfway

Jul/2021

In A Deep & Dreamless Sleep

In A Deep & Dreamless Sleep

Mar/2021

In A Deep And Dreamless Sleep

In A Deep And Dreamless Sleep

Mar/2021

Distance Swimmer

Distance Swimmer

Mar/2021

Pulse

Mar/2021

A Rising Sun

Feb/2021

Black Maps

Jan/2021

But Not Tonight

But Not Tonight

Dec/2020

But Not Tonight (Mint Julep Cover)

But Not Tonight (Mint Julep Cover)

Dec/2020

After All - Single

After All - Single

May/2023

All We'll Ever Be - Single

All We'll Ever Be - Single

Jan/2024

All We'll Ever Be

All We'll Ever Be

Jan/2024

All Summer Long

All Summer Long

Nov/2023

All Summer Long - Single

All Summer Long - Single

Nov/2023

So You Say - Single

So You Say - Single

Jun/2024

Holding On

May/2025

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