Wow, there’s something about Band To Watch and boy/girl duos: Recently, it was Misha and To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie and now it’s the gorgeous, slow-release folk sadness of Mountain Home. The San Diego band could maybe remind you of those Beach House kids or Brightblack Morning Light, but this is free-folk of the breeziest sort, not Galaxie 500 stargazing or nighttime swamp soul. And, well, about the twosome thing? … Band photos can be deceiving.

Press releases and MySpace may rep Mountain Home as 1+1 songwriting team, but on record Joshua Blatchley (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonium) and Kristin Sherer (dulcimer, etc) stretch to a six piece including Ilya Monosov (banjo, acoustic guitar, hurdy gurdy), Margaret Wienk of Fern Knight, Espers’ man man Greg Weeks, and after listening to “The Sparrow” from their five-song debut, we bet you can guess the lead singer…

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