Held in Splendor

Following their 2011 self-titled debut on Mexican Summer, Quilt return with their sophomore album Held in Splendor. It's an audacious pop-rock record with cascading harmonies and billowing textures, punchy rhythms and snarled guitars, wonderful depth and resplendent peaks.

'Mary Mountain" takes hazy Summer of Love memories on a mid-summer road trip in a gleaming muscle car. 'Tired and Buttered' invites Booker T over for an energy-addled jam in the garage. 'The Hollow' twinkles like Fleetwood Mac and Galaxie 500, with sweet singing backed by the lap steel sighs of young acoustic guitar star and longtime Quilt pal Daniel Bachman. Held in Splendor is an album of personal poetry and public questions, confessions and aspirations. For fans of Love, Buffalo Springfield, Tame Impala and Connan Mockasin.