This just in from the Dept. of Musical Oddities (Southern Vermont Division), it’s the official video for “Stay-at-Home Soldier” by Brattleboro-based experiemental folk outfit Happy Jawbone Family Band. The song is from the band’s forthcoming self-titled full-length, due out on Tuesday, October 15, via NYC label Mexican Summer.

The new album is a follow-up to Taste the Broom, a compilation of previously released HJFB material that MS released earlier this year. Judging from this video, HJFB pick up where they left off on that record, which is to say with winsome, lo-fi pop jangle that’s as catchy as it is curious. Check it out …

 

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Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to...