In the Buffalo
Surround by Dennis Crommett

$12.99

Dennis Crommett is a singer/songwriter from Northampton, MA, where he has spent the past 10 years immersed in the vibrant music scene. Crommett is also the guitarist in the chamber pop band Winterpills, fronts the indie rock outfit Spanish For Hitchhiking, and occasionally makes electro-pop music under the name City of Domes.

“In the Buffalo Surround” is the name of a chapter from a book by Mari Sandoz called These Were the Sioux. Dennis Crommett’s new album by the same name (his first release for Signature Sounds/Soft Alarm) is a startlingly beautiful set of eleven songs that explores nature, love, transformation, and the exhilaration of coming into one’s own: “Reading about the Sioux and their respect for animals and nature, their value of ritual, especially as related to growing into adulthood, struck a chord with me,” Dennis explains. “The book, and the title and the content of the album, reflect my increased love of being in nature, and doing so more like the Sioux- going on tough hikes or swimming in rough oceans rather than say the Romantic poets and their appreciation of pretty flowers and absinthe.”

Tracks

1. Bright Light of the Cape

2. New Year's Resolution

3. Rocks of Deer Isle

4. High Cotton

5. All the Great Long Afternoon

6. Dark Gray Horses

7. Grotesque

8. Swallow

9. Early Sunday Morning

10. Labor Day

11. The Ocean Floor