Hello, Blue Roses (Dan Bejar and Sydney Vermont) released a new album featuring Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer (listen)

by Bill Pearis

photo:::Hello, Blue Roses @ Glasslands, 2008 (more by Leia Jospe)

Back in 2008 Hello, Blue Roses, the musical and romantic pairing of Dan Bejar and artist Sydney Vermont, released The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty, an album steeped in ’70s folk. (Some of you in NYC may have gone to see them at Glasslands as well.) Seven years later, HBR are back with Album #2, titled WZO. The record was produced by Dan’s Swan Lake bandmate and Frog Eyes frontman Carey Mercer, who plays on the album as well. It’s out now and you can stream the whole thing below.

Now if we can just get a new Destroyer album. Dan’s other other band, The New Pornographers, are currently on tour with Operators.

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