Mineral’s Chris Simpson talks Big Star, Innocence Mission & more influences on his new baroque pop Mountain Time LP

Mineral/The Gloria Record singer Chris Simpson has just released his second album as Mountain Time, Dream Homes, via Spartan Records. Following the folky vibes of 2020’s Music For Looking Animals, Dream Homes finds Chris going further down a baroque pop path, taking influence from artists like Big Star, The Innocence Mission, and John Cale, all three of which appear on the list Chris made us of albums/songs that inspired Dream Homes. As he explains, Dream Homes is less a new direction and more of a long time coming for him; some of the material he wrote for this album dates back to when he started his Zookeeper project in the mid 2000s, and Chris says The Innocence Mission’s Karen Peris has been a core influence on his singing since the Mineral days. His delicate voice and song...

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