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Clint Michigan
12+ albums
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CLINT, MICHIGAN are an indie band from Brooklyn, New York, USA. Clint Michigan offers a contemplative meditation on love, struggle, and life’s baffling beauty with their second album, Coeur d’Alene. Featuring the singular songwriting talent and style of frontman Clint Asay, as well as appearances by many great Downtown NYC musicians, Coeur d’Alene is a nine-track marvel destined to touch all those with heads full of memories and hearts familiar with ache. It’s been a poignant few years for singer-songwriter Asay since Clint Michigan released its debut album, Hawthorne to Hennepin, in 2009. That album—heralded as “delicate and devastating” (Paste), “plaintive and at times haunting” (Time Out New York), and “magical stuff” (Detour) announced the band to be a powerful presence in the world of alt-folk music, both for Asay’s affecting lyrics and the rhapsodic, reflective harmonies woven throughout its tracks. The title track made its way onto the show Grey’s Anatomy, while critics and live audiences alike extolled the band’s exquisite brand of melancholy. In the intervening years, music has been Asay’s refuge through dark times… He’s gained insight into both his family’s struggles and his heart’s way of perpetually tripping him up. The making of Coeur d’Alene became Asay’s lifeline; the end result will prove similarly significant for those who give it a true listen. Few songwriters possess the poetic dial-up of Asay. With Coeur d’Alene, he communicates a new maturity and gene
