SONG PREMIERE: Joe Baughman + The Righteous Few Share Orchestral Folk Triumph On “Prophet’s Mouth”

While it’s true to say that there are many orchestral folk artists levitating on our Neutral Milk Hotel playlists in the last decade-plus; there are also some that might soon lead their own list. Joe Baughman is no stranger to nameworthy collaborations having created music videos for The Roots, Wilco and Julien Baker; so the artist is no stranger to absorbing inspiration close by. Yet this multi-media guru also is now making the music that he so frequently created the visuals for and as a result, making for a true full musical circle.

Joe Baughman + The Righteous Few have recently announced their forthcoming album Antichrist Complex, due out November 4 – a sound cultivated and inspired by what Baughman describes as  “color from daily Middle American existence, personal sadsackery, religious imagery, and deconstructionism.”

Glide is premiering the gripping “Prophet’s Mouth,” (below) which penetrates ears with an ambitious musical concept with snippets of old-time folk with a true troubadour ethos. Joe Baughman + The Righteous Few remind ears of Brighty Eyes and Rogue Wave, molding big-scale songs with impassioned lyrics and fervent musicianship.

Baughman shares more about the meaning of the song, “Growing up a pastor’s kid in an evangelical Christian church, I was always very fascinated by the prophets I learned about. They seemed to be very lonely people, who always spoke what they thought to be the truth, no matter how unpleasant. I find myself relating to these outcasts of their own culture, speaking in visuals that people don’t often understand.”

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