MIPSO Release Title Track From Upcoming Album EDGES RUN

Mipso, the acclaimed indie-Americana quartet from North Carolina, premiered the second single and title track from their upcoming fourth album, Edges Run, with American Songwriter Magazine, with the song hitting digital platforms far and wide today. The album is set for release on April 6th, 2018 (AntiFragile Music) and Mipso kicks off an extensive North American tour on Edges Run release date -- hitting 30+ markets throughout the United States through mid-May, with summer dates still to be announced. Visit www.mipsomusic.com to view the current list of Mipso's upcoming tour dates.

Crowned "Best New Music," by American Songwriter, the magazine describes, "The new tune ["Edges Run"] builds upon the complex acoustic arrangements and layered vocal harmonies for which the quartet is already known with unorthodox tuning and some otherworldly instrumental flourishes, making for a listen that shows the band to have grown sonically since the release of their 2017 LP Coming Down The Mountain."

Libby Rodenbough (vocals, fiddle, songwriter) explains her process of writing "Edges Run", "I was messing around in a weird fiddle tuning they call Devil's Tuning in Norway, or Calico Tuning in American old-time music, and I fell into a trance-y little pattern. I started singing along, just throwing noodles at the wall, and eventually gibberish became, 'the edges run, the edges run, the edges run all over.' This rang true to me-categories fall apart, lines get crossed... Our producer/mad genius Todd Sickafoose encouraged us to take it apart and leave it a little disjointed. We filled it with little hints and whispers of things. It's a song about cracks in the structure."

Find the first single from Edges Run, "People Change," featured on multiple Spotify including Fresh Folk, Morning Acoustic, Acoustic Love and Pulse of Americana playlists, with over 155K streams since the song's release just 4 weeks ago.

Mipso has always been a creative democracy, and on Edges Run the band takes this ideal to greater lengths than ever before. "We'd all seen a lot of change in a short period," says Sharp of the time between the band's recent 2016 release, Coming Down The Mountain, and Edges Run - recorded in early 2017. "Three of us moved out of the Triangle area and into other places. We had relationships end and deaths of friends and family members."

Those events alone could account for the deeply introspective themes on Edges Run, recorded during the dead of winter in Eugene, Oregon. "We were beginning to feel, probably for the first time, that youth was more behind us than ahead, and so I think we were all feeling different pressures closing in," says Sharp. So the band took a step back to consider their songs-in-progress - and took a leap of faith in traveling far from their North Carolina comfort zone to record in Oregon with producer (and bassist) Todd Sickafoose (Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Anaïs Mitchell).

They carried with them into the sessions a desire to stretch themselves BEYOND previously known roads of composition and performance. For the first time, Mipso came to the studio with sketches of songs rather than fully-fleshed arrangements and decided to co-write songs together, also a first for the band. Call it a new level of confidence or a developing collective consciousness, but with five years as a band and hundreds of nights on the road together, with the release of Edges Run Mipso retains its traditional roots while becoming thoroughly modern, intuitive musicians with the ability to transcend conventions and embrace what lies ahead.

"We have a better idea of what we can do, and how we want to do it," says Sharp.

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