Saintseneca popped into my mailbox awhile ago. Their 7″ was released Sept. 1 and I do really wish I had posted on them before that in order to help build some hype for it. But, better late than never, and I’m hoping there’s some left of their limited to 300, color vinyl. Of course you can get it in digital format, if you really insist.

I think you’ll find their version of Americana folk to be very much in the vein of what you’ve heard on these pages from Scotland and other parts of the UK. It’s banjo/guitar heavy, fast paced and simply gorgeous, as in “God Bones” It’s got a bit of the wildness of The Builders & The Butchers to it, straying off line when it wants and reeling back in again, but with a little less emphasis on percussion. The vocals are lovely. And really it’s the spirit of the thing that is just so appealing. You can purchase their product here, from Paper Brigade. And look beneath the video for their tour dates, you lucky Ohioans! xoxo

Tour Dates
Oct 2 2009 6:00P 7″ Release show at Used Kids! w/ Couch Forts and Letters to the Moon!!!!! Coulmbus, Ohio
Oct 16 2009 8:00P Carabar w/ Little Teeth and Super Desserts and State School Columbus, Ohio
Oct 25 2009 6:00P Browntown w/Batrider Athens, Ohio
Nov 5 2009 10:00P live performance on WRUW’s Live From Cleveland radio show Cleveland, Ohio
Nov 8 2009 8:00P w/state school, brook pridemore, and rattle trap Dayton, Ohio