Yesterday I received the self-titled McCarthy Trenching album I’d been anticipating since seeing them open for Bright Eyes in Milwaukee. Their opening show was both an absolute pleasure and big surprise having never heard of them prior.

Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska the group is anchored and was founded by Dan McCarthy, whose storytelling tales resonate through each song on the album. The album was released on Conor Oberst’s Team Love label, who aptly describe the album as “a mixture of tear-in-beer waltzes, anthemic drinking songs, and restless tunes of longing that take you from the bar to the road to the track to the morning after and back to the bar again, just in time for happy hour.”

Dig into the track below and check back because we’ll be covering these guys again soon.

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