STRAW MAN ARMY - True North [Full Album, 2026]

Label: La Vida Es Un Mus SUPPORT THE MUSICIANS, buy their music! https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/al... With "True North", Straw Man Army open a door and pull us into another landscape. An album that feels like a journey through mist-covered woods, where acoustic melodies and psychedelic visions intertwine beneath an apparently calm surface. But beneath that calm, something deep, restless and powerful is flowing. Eleven tracks, like little compasses in a world that has lost its sense of direction. Straw Man Army have a geography all of their own. "Following their self-proclaimed LP trilogy (2020-2024), Straw Man Army returns with a new songwriting experiment in the form of True North; a collection of 11 songs written for acoustic instruments over three 72 hour sessions at a cabin, isolated in the woods north of NYC. The result is a concept album in practice as opposed to subject alone. Attuned to both the spiritual and political dimensions of seeking refuge in our times, it asks what exactly we mean by “peace” in this era of increasing violence, incarceration, and skepticism towards a future worth living. Does it feel like relaxation, does it tend towards silence? Is it the cooling of our collective rage? Not here. On True North, peace is a spiritual contradiction; a chimera incorporating our innermost desires and the brutality of the world that surrounds us. The album’s central character is a “sleepwalker” trudging through the waking nightmares that have defined daily life since the release of 2024’s Earthworks. Because True North is music that dreams. Sonically, the band toys with the aesthetics of psychedelia, folk, and kosmiche music for contrast, creating a still pool into which their deepest anxieties ripple and flow and flower into ever darker shapes. And while the musical palette plays on tropes of peace—lush piano instrumentals, fingerpicking guitars, gong, vocal harmony—the subject remains steeped in environmental collapse, death, mental breakdown, and the rejection of our most closely held myths. The clash of these forces is the engine that turns the musical wheel. True North is the sound of music mourning a future that never took place and a bout of anticipatory grief for something that’s only just begun…" 00:00 11th Hour 02:20 Blood Tomorrow 05:57 Sleepwalker 09:34 Mourning Dove 12:49 Striking Home 15:24 Sky Burial 18:13 In The Garden 20:40 Straw Man Army 24:00 Alford 27:13 Falling Star 28:54 Laughing Landscapes ***All materials belong to their respective copyright owners and are shared here for informational purposes only. If you are a musician or copyright holder and don’t want your content featured (or wish additional info added), please contact me and I’ll update or remove it immediately! Contact: johnnyhatesmusic@gmail.com