Bombay Harambee "Goldmine"

12 Songs | MR093 | Release Date 2016 Goldmine evokes earned grit. It’s a fitting title for the debut LP from Bombay Harambee, of Little Rock, Ark., workplace of Charles Portis. This record blazes a path of arresting and literate post-punk and lives up to the bold decree of the album’s sinister pulp cover: “42 Minutes of Western Action!” From its opening feedback buzz Goldmine swerves into the churning current of “Interval,” declaring that “Now’s it’s time to stupefy and wonder.”  Theirs is a familiar sound but never a game of retread. It seeps up from the fertile eighties and early nineties that once nurtured luminaries like Pavement and Sonic Youth.  Formed by Alexander Jones and Trent Whitehead in 2013, the band has undergone a transformation with the additions of Tyler Nance on drums and Ryker Horn on bass. Recorded at Fellowship Hall Sound with Jim Dickinson disciple Jason Weinheimer, Goldmine was crafted and honed over the last year and a half as the band played through the south