"..A highly evolved, adaptive beast of music, Pennyroyal puts a glam spin on the rock ‘n’ blues sound other bands are circling in on today.. An almost terrifying genius powering lead singer Angie Oase’s at once ethereal and guttural vocals, leading the charge onto the gates of musical heaven." -LB


Minneapolis’ own Pennyroyal is best known for the raw, country-tinged vocal performances of front-woman Angie Oase and her harmonica duels with co-songwriter Ethan Rutherford. After writing songs together for a few months, Oase and Rutherford recruited Jake Mohan and Bill Hoben and recorded their first album, Sad Face/Glad Face, which was hailed by Star-Tribune music critic Chris Riemenschneider as “one of the best releases of 2011.”
In 2012, the band returned with the EP Places, featuring the singles “Minot” and “Monday Tuesday” (which had become staples of their energetic live shows). The EP found a home on the Current and Cities 97, propelled them on tour, and topped Hymie’s Vintage Records’ “Best of 2012.”
Now Pennyroyal is proud to release their highly anticipated full-length follow-up, Baby I’m Against It.  Recorded and co-produced by Ed Ackerson (Polara, BNLX), this is everything a sophomore effort should be: sonically agile, expansive, and ambitious—an album whose songs examine the gritty and difficult (though often danceable) themes of breakup and dislocation.  Each song on the album captures a distinct mood: “M List” and the feverish “An Official Statement” plot electronic loops against walls of guitar; “Did You Really Mean It,” “Dallas,” and “Last I Had” are spare and aching ballads; “Go Quiet” and “Record Machine” flirt with disco. It’s a complicated and rewarding album that eschews easy categorization, but with each song the portrait the band has created, of a relationship in its final stages, comes stunningly into view.

Philadelphia’s Carroll (two R’s, two L’s) was born in late 2011 when frontman Brian Hurlow started composing melancholic pop songs that caught the ear of college classmate and drummer Charlie Rudoy. The lifelong musicians clicked and moved in together to a house on Carroll Avenue, coining the psychedelic, shoegazey-pop band’s name. After guitarist Max Kulicke and bassist Charles McClung came on board for the live show, Carroll started turning heads. Since the release of their Needs EP, they’ve become a mainstay on The Current, the Twin Cities’ triple A NPR affiliate station, and were named Best New Band by the two biggest local arts publications. In February of 2014, the band escaped the frigid Minnesota winter to Philly’s Miner Street Recordings where they cut the Carroll full-length in 17 days with the expertise of engineer Jonathan Low, whose albums produced for the National, (Mr.) Twin Sister,and Local Natives have reached critical acclaim and notable industry recognition. With Hurlow‘s subdued yet distinct vocals accompanied by Rudoy’s punctual drums and all-around alluring riff vignettes, Carroll’s self-titled debut will leave you bewitched. After a string of festival gigs this summer sharing stages with the likes of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Sylvan Esso, Polica, Low, Carroll heads out on a  month-long tour in support of their forthcoming LP.

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