Mini Mansions - The Great Pretenders (2015)

Mini Mansions’ forthcoming new album, The Great Pretenders, is due on March 24, 2015 on T Bone Burnett’s Electromagnectic Recordings, via Capitol Records in the U.S. and Fiction Records in the UK. Hailing from California, Mini Mansions formed as jam sessions turned into recordings. Michael Shuman is the current bassist in Queens of the Stone Age, Zach Dawes has served as a studio hired gun and has worked with Brian Wilson, Kimbra, and longtime mentor T Bone Burnett, Tyler Parkford releases music under his solo moniker Mister Goodnite. The Great Pretenders ambitiously reflects the depth, variety, and musical/compositional interplay between these three distinct individuals. It’s also probably the only record you’ll hear this year that features both Brian Wilson and Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner as guests – indeed, its entire song cycle teems with that kind of surprising discovery.