Mint Mile - andwhichstray

andwhichstray, Mint Mile's sixth record, was predominantly engineered by Steve Albini at a recording seminar in the south of France a few days before his death.

The album is about boiling down life to its essentials. How little we differ from pets and barnyard animals. Appreciating yet lamenting the grind through bad times, grateful for any rise up out of them. True freedom vs priggish, piggish fundamentalism. The way the road forward looks when you're an adult as opposed to, say, your kid's age.

The next-to-last song on the record ("Can't Be The First One") was written by Jason Molina for the surviving members of Silkworm, the day after Michael Dahlquist was killed in 2005. A cassette of this song went un-listened in a drawer for 15+ years. When Midyett finally pressed play he discovered he now had the right band for it.

Members of Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, Songs: Ohia, Palliard, Tre Orsi, Sunn O))), Downer Trio and Purple Mountains