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LITTLE MAZARN
Mustang Island(Dear Life Records)
Add date: 6.24.2025
Release date: 6.20.2025
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Mustang Island, the third album from Austin-based band Little Mazarn, is a gentle force. Waves
of grief crest like surf on the Texas coast. Wild horses break through long-shuttered gates, only
to come back around. Lead songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Lindsey Verrill
(she/her) joins bandmates Jeff Johnston (he/him) and Carolina Chauffe (they/them). The
ten-song collection continues work with Dear Life Records. A full-throated romp through the
capabilities of community-minded songcraft, Mustang Island is both naturalistic and futuristic,
completely recasting Little Mazarn’s origins in primitive folk. Instead, the band reaches towards
sonic experimentation and spacious expansion.
Lindsey’s heart-opening vocals and Jeff’s singing saw, both trademarks of the project, mix with
unexpected bombastic drums, dissonant synthesizers, and a chorus of orchestral oddities. This
mid-career ode dances confidently in the creative liberties granted by decades in the game
– more dazzlingly lively, and honestly somber, than ever before.
The band’s crossroads branch across prominent Southern outsider music: On cello, Lindsey has
recorded with Patty Griffin and Dana Falconberry. The longtime side player wouldn’t write her
first song until age 34. Jeff has played in Bill Callahan’s band, as well as with Li’l Cap'n Travis
and Orange Mothers. Carolina is known for prolific solo project hemlock. Little Mazarn has also
collaborated with Lomelda to release their last EP, Honey Island General Store (2023), following
past LPs Texas River Song (2022) and Io (2019).
Alongside silliness and reverence, including covers from Kate Wolf and Bob Wills & His Texas
Playboys, grief directs much of Mustang Island. Lindsey left her job of seventeen years teaching
cello at a local school. Recording also aligned with the passing of Jeff’s father, a career educator
in Jeff and Lindsey’s hometown of Dallas.
“Grief, and the avoidance of grief, is a big part of being human,” says Lindsey. “You make a
choice, and then you grieve for the other choice. Or you finish a meal and literally grieve that it
was so good. If you really befriend grief, you’re like, ‘Oh, it’s here, in this pancake, which I loved
so much that I ate the whole thing, and now it’s gone.’”
Apple Music
Bandcamp
Official Website
Spotify
Tidal
YouTube
Mustang Island, the third album from Austin-based band Little Mazarn, is a gentle force. Waves
of grief crest like surf on the Texas coast. Wild horses break through long-shuttered gates, only
to come back around. Lead songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Lindsey Verrill
(she/her) joins bandmates Jeff Johnston (he/him) and Carolina Chauffe (they/them). The
ten-song collection continues work with Dear Life Records. A full-throated romp through the
capabilities of community-minded songcraft, Mustang Island is both naturalistic and futuristic,
completely recasting Little Mazarn’s origins in primitive folk. Instead, the band reaches towards
sonic experimentation and spacious expansion.
Lindsey’s heart-opening vocals and Jeff’s singing saw, both trademarks of the project, mix with
unexpected bombastic drums, dissonant synthesizers, and a chorus of orchestral oddities. This
mid-career ode dances confidently in the creative liberties granted by decades in the game
– more dazzlingly lively, and honestly somber, than ever before.
The band’s crossroads branch across prominent Southern outsider music: On cello, Lindsey has
recorded with Patty Griffin and Dana Falconberry. The longtime side player wouldn’t write her
first song until age 34. Jeff has played in Bill Callahan’s band, as well as with Li’l Cap'n Travis
and Orange Mothers. Carolina is known for prolific solo project hemlock. Little Mazarn has also
collaborated with Lomelda to release their last EP, Honey Island General Store (2023), following
past LPs Texas River Song (2022) and Io (2019).
Alongside silliness and reverence, including covers from Kate Wolf and Bob Wills & His Texas
Playboys, grief directs much of Mustang Island. Lindsey left her job of seventeen years teaching
cello at a local school. Recording also aligned with the passing of Jeff’s father, a career educator
in Jeff and Lindsey’s hometown of Dallas.
“Grief, and the avoidance of grief, is a big part of being human,” says Lindsey. “You make a
choice, and then you grieve for the other choice. Or you finish a meal and literally grieve that it
was so good. If you really befriend grief, you’re like, ‘Oh, it’s here, in this pancake, which I loved
so much that I ate the whole thing, and now it’s gone.’”